Andre-Michel Schub

Andre-Michel Schub (born 26 December 1952, Paris) is a classical pianist.

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]

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]

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.

On Independence Day 1986, in the PBS-televised program "A Capitol Fourth, 1986," he performed Piano Concerto No. 1 (Tchaikovsky) with the National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Mstislav Rostropovich.[8]

He has performed on Saint Paul Sunday,[9] and Performance Today.[10]

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.[11]

Recordings

MP3 Downloads

DVD

References

  1. ↑ http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-10316181.html
  2. ↑ http://www.msmnyc.edu/catalog/facbio.asp?fid=1012040797
  3. ↑ subscription link New York Times, May 13, 1974
  4. ↑ "Two Musicians Win Avery Fisher Prizes" subscription link New York Times, March 23, 1977
  5. ↑ 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
  6. ↑ New York Times, May 13, 1974, p.39 "Music: Impressive Debut; Andre-Michel Schub, Pianist, Takes On a Man-Eating, Splashy Program" subscription link
  7. ↑ subscription link New York Times, Oct 28, 1979
  8. ↑ "Turner Classic Movies Database".
  9. ↑ http://saintpaulsunday.publicradio.org/artists/artist/index.php?ac=kavafian_shifrin_schub
  10. ↑ http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1017011
  11. ↑ Camerata Ireland with Barry Douglas, Library of Congress, December 3, 2007
  12. ↑ Arkiv Music
  13. ↑ Arkiv Music
  14. ↑ http://www.keenzo.com/showproduct.asp?ID=1543256