Michail Lifits (born 1982) is a prizewinning German concert pianist who was born into a family of musicians in

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Biography

He studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in

Hanover Hanover (; german: Hannover ; nds, Hannober) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Lower Saxony. Its 535,932 (2021) inhabitants make it the 13th-largest city in Germany as well as the fourth-largest city in Northern Germany ...

under Bernd Goetzke and

Karl-Heinz Kämmerling Karl-Heinz Kämmerling (6 May 1930 – 14 June 2012) was a notable German academic teacher of classical pianists, who trained pianists at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover for careers as performer ...

, and at the ''Incontri col Maestro'' Academy in

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, Italy, under

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. In 2009, he won first prize at the 2009

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and at the

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, Italy. He was also a semi-finalist at the 2009

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. Lifits has played at many prestigious venues including Carnegie Hall in New York, Salle Cortot in Paris,

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in London and the Tonhalle in Zurich.

References

External links

Michail Lifits' website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lifits, Michail German pianists 1982 births Musicians from Hanover Uzbekistani emigrants to Germany Living people Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover alumni 21st-century pianists