Andre-Michel Schub (born 26 December 1952, in Paris) is a classical pianist.
Andre-Michel Schub (born 26 December 1952, in Paris) is a classical pianist.
Schub came to New York City with his family, when he was eight months old. He began his piano studies with his mother when he was four, and later continued his work with Jascha Zayde. He graduated from Midwood High School in Brooklyn, New York, [1] and attended Princeton University, and then transferred to the Curtis Institute of Music, where he studied with Rudolf Serkin, from 1970 to 1973. He judged the 1997 Hilton Head Competition. [2]
He has taught at the Manhattan School of Music, since 2006. [3]
In 1974 Schub took first prize at the Naumburg Competition. [4] In 1977 he received the Avery Fisher Prize. [5] In 1981 he won the Gold medal at the Van Cliburn International Competition [6]
His New York debut at Alice Tully Hall on May 13, 1974, was reviewed by The New York Times as an "impressive debut". [7] In 1979, he became the pianist for the New York Chamber Music Society. [8] Schub appears frequently as guest artist with Mostly Mozart, Tanglewood, Ravinia, and Blossom festivals. He has performed with major orchestras, including the Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Dallas, Detroit, St. Louis and Cleveland and Philadelphia symphony orchestras and the Los Angeles and New York philharmonics and the Royal Concertgebouw. He is an artist of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Since 1997, he has been music director of the Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Music Series.
On Independence Day 1986, in the PBS-televised program "A Capitol Fourth, 1986," he performed Piano Concerto No. 1 (Tchaikovsky) with the National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Mstislav Rostropovich. [9]
He has performed on Saint Paul Sunday , [10] and Performance Today . [11]
Most recently, on May 19, 2006, he gave the world premier performance of Bright Sheng's "Three Fantasies for Violin and Piano," commissioned by the McKim Fund in the Library of Congress. [12]
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