Andre-Michel Schub
Andre-Michel Schub (born 26 December 1952, Paris) is a classical pianist.
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[edit] Biography
Schub came to New York City with his family, when he was eight months old. He began his piano studies with his mother when he was four, and later continued his work with Jascha Zayde. He attended Princeton University, and then transferred to the Curtis Institute of Music, where he studied with Rudolf Serkin, from 1970 to 1973. He judged the 1997 Hilton Head Competition.[1]
He has taught at the Manhattan School of Music, since 2006.[2]
[edit] Prizes
In 1974 Schub took first prize at the Naumburg Competition.[3] In 1977 he received the Avery Fisher Prize.[4] In 1981 he won the Gold medal at the Van Cliburn International Competition [5]
[edit] Concert career
His New York debut at Alice Tully Hall on May 13, 1974, was reviewed by the New York Times as an "impressive debut".[6] In 1979, he became the pianist for the New York Chamber Music Society.[7] Schub appears frequently as guest artist with Mostly Mozart, Tanglewood, Ravinia, and Blossom festivals. He has performed with major orchestras, including the Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Dallas, Detroit, St. Louis and Cleveland and Philadelphia symphony orchestras and the Los Angeles and New York philharmonics and the Royal Concertgebouw. He is an artist of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Since 1997, he has been music director of the Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Music Series.
He has performed on Saint Paul Sunday,[8] and Performance Today.[9]
Most recently, on May 19, 2006, he gave the world premier performance of Bright Sheng's "Three Fantasies for Violin and Piano," commissioned by the McKim Fund in the Library of Congress.[10]
[edit] Recordings
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- Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 3 & 23 ("Appassionata"), Vox (Classical), ASIN: B00008FZYM (November 4, 1992)
- Bright Sheng: 3 Fantasies: No. 3. Kazakhstan Love Song, Naxos, ASIN: B001P2C34I, January 27, 2009
- Van Cliburn Competition 1981, Video Artists Int'l, ASIN: B00000I7H7, November 30, 1999
- Asia: Concerto For Piano, Koch Int'l Classics, ASIN: B000001SJK, November 18, 1997
- A Mozart Celebration: Virginia Arts Festival, Musical Heritage Society, ASIN: B000KLVS50
- Stravinsky: Suite Italienne/Duo Concertant/Divertimento, Sony, ASIN: B0000026EE, October 25, 1990
- Brahms: Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24, Liszt: Grande Etudes de Paganini (No. 2 in E-flat and No. 6 in A minor), Dante Sonata, Vox Cum Laude, ASIN: B001OF7NOG,
- The American Album, Rca Victor Red Seal, Catalog #68114 [11]
- Rorem: Winter Pages, Bright Music, New World Records, Catalog #80416 [12]
[edit] MP3 Downloads
- Bright Sheng: 3 Fantasies: No. 1. Dreams Song
- Bright Sheng: 3 Fantasies: No. 2. Tibetan Air
[edit] DVD
- Sixth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition - Andre-Michel Schub, Panayis Lyras, Santiago Rodriguez, HARMONIA MUNDI, Part#4504 [13]
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-10316181.html
- ^ http://www.msmnyc.edu/catalog/facbio.asp?fid=1012040797
- ^ [elect.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50B15F7385B1A7493C1A8178ED85F408785F9 subscription link] New York Times, May 13, 1974
- ^ "Two Musicians Win Avery Fisher Prizes" subscription link New York Times, March 23, 1977
- ^ A Cliburn reunion 1981 medalists Andre-Michel Schub and Santiago Rodriguez are sharing the stage, this time as fellow performers, not competitors, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, September 17, 1996
- ^ New York Times, May 13, 1974, p.39 "Music: Impressive Debut; Andre-Michel Schub, Pianist, Takes On a Man-Eating, Splashy Program" subscription link
- ^ subscription link New York Times, Oct 28, 1979]
- ^ http://saintpaulsunday.publicradio.org/artists/artist/index.php?ac=kavafian_shifrin_schub
- ^ http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1017011
- ^ [www.loc.gov/radioconcerts/programs/past/program5.html Camerata Ireland with Barry Douglas, Library of Congress, December 3, 2007 ]
- ^ Arkiv Music
- ^ Arkiv Music
- ^ http://www.keenzo.com/showproduct.asp?ID=1543256
