Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Andre-Michel Schub, piano


His Student Steven Mann and Mr. Schub


New to Mucony, Pianist Andre-Michel Schub makes orchestral appearances this season in Memphis, Santa Barbara, and Williamsburg, Virginia. He plays solo recitals in Washington, DC and Phoenix, joint recitals with violinist Cho-Liang Lin, and trio concerts with David Shifrin and Ani Kavafian. He is also engaged in a recording project of Mozart's music to commemorate the tenth season of the Virginia Arts Festival.

Winner of the 1974 Naumburg International Piano Competition, recipient of the 1977 Avery Fisher Career Grant, and grand prize winner of the 1981 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, Mr. Schub has been the artistic director of the Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Music Series since 1997.

He appears as guest artist with Mostly Mozart, Tanglewood, Ravinia, the Blossom Festival, Wolf Trap, and the Casals Festival in Puerto Rico. He has performed with the Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Dallas, Detroit, St. Louis, and Milwaukee symphonies; the Cleveland and Philadelphia orchestras; the Los Angeles, New York, and Rochester philharmonics; the Royal Concertgebouw; the Bournemouth Symphony, and the New York Pops in Carnegie Hall.

Mr. Schub was an Artist of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center from 1979-1983, and returned in 2002.

Manhattan School of Music College faculty member since 2006.


His Schumann Carnaval Op.9 piano lessons will be available to you in early June, 2008.

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