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Ammiel Bushakevitz

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Ammiel Bushakevitz
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The pianist Ammiel Bushakevitz, who was born in Jerusalem and grew up in South Africa, studied in Berlin, Leipzig and Paris. His teachers included Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Helmut Deutsch, Alfred Brendel and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, whose 2011 Lieder masterclasses at the University of the Arts in in Berlin and Schubertiade in Schwarzenberg he accompanied. He has appeared in recital with singers including Thomas Hampson, Matthias Goerne, Barbara Bonney, Robert Holl, Elly Ameling, Thomas Quasthoff, Brigitte Fassbaender and Teresa Berganza and as a soloist and chamber musician at festivals including those in Lucerne, Salzburg, Bayreuth, Oxford and Vancouver, the Heidelberg Spring Festival, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Festival Musica Classica de Montréal, the Shanghai Music Festival, Pablo Casals Festival, the Schubertiade in Vorarlberg, the Festival Pitic in Mexico, and the Melbourne Arts Festival.

His first solo CD - of Schubert - was released in 2013 and was used as the soundtrack for the Austrian film Gwendolyn. Several prize winning recordings followed: Barcelona (Solfa Records 2015), Jerusalem (BIS 2016), Vienna (Gramola 2017), Lisbon (Hänssler Classics 2017), Munich (BIS 2021), a Schubert album - Insomnia - with  Katharina Konradi (Berlin Classics, 2023), a Brahms CD mit Anna Lucia Richter (Pentatone, 2023) and Schubert's Die Schöne Müllerin with Samuel Hasselhorn (Harmonia Mundi, 2023).

He holds regular masterclasses for young pianists at places including the Israeli Music Academy in Jerusalem, the University of Queensland, University of Wellington, the Bei­jing Conservatory, Universidad de Barcelona and University of Colorado. Recent concert work has included tours of China, Australia, New Zealand, South America and the USA with leading artists including Christian Gerhaher, Julia Kleiter and Anna Prohaska. This season he made his debut at the Carnegie Hall in New York with Laetitia Grimaldi and gave concerts with Konstantin Krimmel (at places including the Wigmore Hall in London and Schubertiade in Schwarzenberg), Anna Lucia Richter (venues included the Concertgebow in Amsterdam) and Katharina Konradi and Jörg Widmann at the Schubertiade in Hohenems.

He is president of the international Kunstverein Les Voix d’Orphée, a member of the Société des Arts Sciences et Lettres de Paris, Alumnus of the German Academic Austauschdienstes, an honorary member of the Richard Wagner Verband and Edison Fellow of the British Library, London. His debut at Oper Frankfurt was adventurous, stepping in at extremely short notice to accompany Anna Lucia Richter in June 2021, conquering the audience with his playing - in solo works too.  Now he's back, after giving a recital with Konstantin Krimmel in July 2022, for this evening with Katharina Konradi.