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June 17, 2014
SIR ANDRAS SCHIFF

Congratulations are in order for András Schiff who was recently awarded a Knighthood for his services to music by Queen Elizabeth II in the 2014 Birthday Honours.

Born in Budapest, Schiff became a British citizen in 2001. Indisputably one of the most prominent proponents of the keyboard works of J.S. Bach, he completed The Bach Project in 2013. Comprised of six Bach recitals and an orchestral week of Bach, Schumann and Mendelssohn with Mr. Schiff at the piano and on the podium, the complete Project visited New York City, San Francisco and Los Angeles. 

He has recorded exclusively for ECM since 1997, releasing the complete solo piano music of Beethoven and Janácek, two solo albums of Schumann piano pieces, his second recordings of the Bach Partitas and Goldberg Variations, The Well Tempered Clavier, Books I and II and Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations

Other classical musicians celebrated at this year's Honours include soprano Susan Bullock and John Berry, Artistic Director of English National Opera. 

 

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