Konstantin Lifschitz

Konstantin Lifschitz has earned a reputation for performing demanding masterpieces and extraordinary feats of endurance with great honesty and exceptional, persuasive beauty. He appears in the world’s most prestigious concert halls and with the outstanding orchestras, both in recitals and concert programs. In addition, he has recorded numerous CDs. His performances are praised as “magical moments” and “deeply satisfying” (The Independent), as well as “with movingly natural expression” (The New York Times).

Konstantin Lifschitz was born in 1976 in Kharkiv, Ukraine. At the age of five, he began piano lessons at the Gnessin Music School in Moscow. Tatiana Zelikman was his most important teacher. After graduating, he continued his studies in the UK and Italy where his other teachers included Alfred Brendel, Leon Fleisher, Theodor Gutmann, Hamish Milne, Charles Rosen, Karl-Ulrich Schnabel, Vladimir Tropp, Fou T’song, and Rosalyn Tureck, mostly at the Lieven International Piano Foundation.

In the early 1990s, he started to perform in European capitals such as Paris, Amsterdam, Vienna, Munich, and Milan. He toured Japan with the Moscow Virtuosi under the baton of Vladimir Spivakov, while in Europe he toured with the St Petersburg Symphony Orchestra under Yuri Temirkanov, and also performed with Mischa Maisky and Gidon Kremer in many European cites. In 1995 he received the ECHO Klassik Award of “The Best Emerging Artist of the Year” for his first recording, and the following year he was nominated for a Grammy award for Bach’s Goldberg Variations. As a soloist Konstantin Lifschitz has collaborated with leading conductors such as Mstislav Rostropovich, Vladimir Spivakov, Yury Temirkanov, Sir Neville Marriner, Bernard Haitink, Sir Roger Norrington, Fabio Luisi, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Marek Janowski, Eliahu Inbal, Mikhail Jurowsky, Andrey Boreyko, Dimitry Liss, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Alexander Rudin and Christopher Hogwood.

Highlights of the recent seasons included a solo recital in the Grand Hall of the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, a Bach cycle in Kaohsiung and Taipei with a total of nine concerts, and a “Play and Conduct” concert with the Musica Viva Chamber Orchestra. He has also appeared at numerous festivals, including VERÃO CLÁSSICO, the Les Nuits Pianistiques Festival in Aix-en-Provence, and the Würzburg Bach Days. Konstantin Lifschitz is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music in London and has taught his own class as artistic professor at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts since 2008.