Education
Gnessin Russian Academy of Music.
Gnessin Russian Academy of Music.
At the age of five Lifschitz came to the Gnessin Specialized Music School in Moscow. When he was 13 he gave his first recital at the House of the Unions (Moscow) that was greeted with enthusiasm. At the final exam (1994) he played the Goldberg Variations, Gaspard de la nuit and works by Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin.
Lifschitz did not participate in any piano contests.
After the Perestroika he started to give concerts in major European cities. Among the orchestras he played with are I Solisti Veneti, MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, Academy of Street Martin in the Fields, Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, Minnesota Orchestra, Bern Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Saint St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra.
Conductors were Andrey Boreyko, Bernard Haitink, Eliahu Inbal, Marek Janowski, Michail Jurowski, Eri Klas, Fabio Luisi, Neville Marriner, Claudio Scimone, Yuri Temirkanov, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Mstislav Rostropovich. Konstantin Lifschitz is giving masterclasses all around the world.
Since 2008 he has an own class at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts.
He lives near Lucerne. He performs or performed chamber music with string quartets and soloists as Gidon Kremer, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Leila Josefowicz, Mischa Maisky, Lynn Harrell, Carolin Widmann, Bella Davidovich, Valery Afanassiev, Natalia Gutman, Jörg Widmann, Sol Gabetta, Alexei Volodin, Daishin Kashimoto, Maxim Vengerov, Mstislav Rostropovich († 2007) and Eugene Ugorski (* 1989). Lifschitz conducts orchestras and the Gabrieli Choir.
Orchestra Saint Christopher Chamber Orchestra Vilnius Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra Wernigerode Chamber Orchestra Arpeggione Hohenems Dalarna Sinfonietta Falun Lux Aeterna Budapest I Solisti di Napoli Neujahrskonzert Langnau in Emmental Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra Copenhagen Philharmonic Moscow Virtuosi Century Orchestra Osaka Konstantin Lifschitz – review, The Guardian, 2011 Konstantin Lifschitz – review, The Independent, 2007 Bach’s Songs of Innocence and Experience, All in a Day, New York Times, 2007 Schubert Piano works/Lifschitz/Palexa C Rheingau Musik Festival Miami International Piano Festival Lucerne Festival Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival Bodenseefestival White Nights Festival, Saint St. Petersburg George Enescu Festival, Bucharest Newport Music Festival Sommerliche Musiktage, Hitzacker Tivoli Festival Copenhagen Les Nuits Pianistiques Festival, Aix-en-Provence SoNoRo International Chamber Music Festival, Bukarest James Bolle, Piano Concert Vladimir Ryabov, 4 Chromatic Studies Jakov Jacoulov, Carrousel Boris Yoffe, Humble Muse Rahel Senn, Song of a Magnolia Denis Burstein, Variations Inna Zhvanetskaya, Dance-Suite (Partita) Nimrod Borenstein, Melancholic Mobile (Number 3 from Reminiscences of Childhood) Colette Mourey, Eaux-Fortes, Number.
6: Une promenade (spirituelle) à Rome Echo (music award) Best International Newcomer (1995) for the Debut Recording.