Konstantin Lifschitz

Konstantin Lifschitz was born in Kharkiv, Ukraine, in 1976. At the age of five, he began piano lessons at the Gnessin Music School in Moscow, where Tatiana Zelikman was his most important teacher. After graduating, he continued his studies in the United Kingdom and Italy. His key mentors included Alfred Brendel, Leon Fleisher, Theodor Gutmann, Hamish Milne, Charles Rosen, Karl Ulrich Schnabel, Vladimir Tropp, Fou T’song, and Rosalyn Tureck, primarily at the Lieven International Piano Foundation.

In the early 1990s, Konstantin Lifschitz received a scholarship from the Russian Cultural Foundation. At the same time, he began performing in major European cities such as Paris, Amsterdam, Vienna, Munich, and Milan. He also appeared in other European cities alongside artists like Mischa Maisky and Gidon Kremer. His first recording earned him the ECHO Klassik Award in 1995 as “Young Artist of the Year.” The following year, his interpretation of Bach’s Goldberg Variations was nominated for a Grammy Award.

He has performed with the world’s leading orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra Hamburg, MDR Symphony Orchestra Leipzig, SWR Symphony Orchestra, Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, and the Danish National Symphony Orchestra.

As a soloist, Konstantin Lifschitz has collaborated with distinguished conductors such as Mstislav Rostropovich, Vladimir Spivakov, Yuri Temirkanov, Sir Neville Marriner, Bernard Haitink, Sir Roger Norrington, Fabio Luisi, Marek Janowski, Eliahu Inbal, Mikhail Jurowski, Andrey Boreyko, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Alexander Rudin and Christopher Hogwood.

As a chamber musician, he has performed with renowned artists including Gidon Kremer, Maxim Vengerov, Vadim Repin, Mischa Maisky, Mstislav Rostropovich, Natalia Gutman, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Lynn Harrell, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Daishin Kashimoto, Leila Josefowicz, Carolin Widmann, Jörg Widmann, Sol Gabetta, Eugene Ugorski, and Alexander Rudin.

Konstantin Lifschitz is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music in London and has been teaching his own class at the Lucerne University of Music since 2008. In 2023, he was appointed to an artistic professorship at the institution.