Education
Zacharias studied piano with Irene Slavin and Vlado Perlemuter in Paris.
Zacharias studied piano with Irene Slavin and Vlado Perlemuter in Paris.
After winning the Ravel Competition in Paris in 1975, he launched an international career. He made many recordings, among them a 1979 recording of 33 sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti, the complete Schubert piano sonatas, and the complete Mozart piano concertos (available on Electric and Music Industries classics). He began his conducting career in 1992 with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande in Geneva.
He made his United States debut in 2000 with the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Since 2000, he has been artistic director of the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra.
