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András Schiff: Bach’s Goldberg Variations Carolina Performing Arts Memorial Hall, UNC-Chapel Hill Wednesday, Oct. 23 7:30 p.m., $10–$119 Pianists are measured against one another by how they ...
Conductor and pianist Sir Andras Schiff has withdrawn from the BBC Proms after breaking his leg. The 70-year-old Grammy winner had been due to perform Bach’s The Art of Fugue at the Royal Albert Hall ...
The pianist Andras Schiff is beginning a monumental two-season project of performing — from memory — all of Bach’s keyboard works, in New York and elsewhere.
We know the insightful Hungarian pianist Andras Schiff to be a man of firm political convictions. The son of Holocaust survivors, in 2011 he declared his opposition to political developments in ...
CREDIT: Stefan Cohen.Stefan Cohen 2009 Among the great musical gifts that San Francisco has enjoyed during recent years, the recurrent recitals by pianist András Schiff must rank at or near the top.
Andras Schiff, another famed Hungarian pianist, is now making the jump onto the podium. Last evening at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall, he joined the National Symphony Orchestra in a program of ...
Concert pianist Andras Schiff said that he has been threatened with having his hands cut off if he returns to Hungary. Schiff, who has been an outspoken critic of the right wing government of ...
Each day this week pianist Schiff talks with Fred Child about the Beethoven cello sonatas he played with cellist Miklos Perenyi last summer at the Schwetzingen Festival, in Germany. From that ...
Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas are monumentally challenging works, and classical listeners pay a lot of attention to any pianist who performs them all. Andras Schiff has taken up the challenge.
After an absence of more than 20 years, pianist András Schiff gave two gala concerts with different programs in Melbourne and Sydney. Schiff’s solo concerts always follow a carefully designed plan.
Mr. Rabinovich, chosen by the pianist Andras Schiff for a concert series, played works that included elements of dance and folk music in an 80-minute recital.