About

Emanuel Ax, pianist

Born to Polish parents in what is today Lviv, Ukraine, Emanuel Ax moved to Winnipeg, Canada, with his family when he was a young boy. Mr. Ax made his New York debut in the Young Concert Artists Series, and in 1974 won the first Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition in Tel Aviv. In 1975 he won the Michaels Award of Young Concert Artists, followed four years later by the Avery Fisher Prize.

The 2023/24 season will focus on the world premiere of Anders Hillborg’s piano concerto, commissioned for him by the San Francisco Symphony and Esa-Pekka Salonen with subsequent performances in Stockhom and New York. A continuation of the ‘Beethoven For 3’ touring and recording project with partners Leonidas Kavakos and Yo-Yo Ma will take them to the mid-west in January. In recital Mr. Ax can be heard on the west coast in the fall and mid-west/east coast in the spring, culminating at Carnegie Hall in April. An extensive European tour will include concerts in Holland, Italy, Germany, France and the Czech Republic.

Mr. Ax has been a Sony Classical exclusive recording artist since 1987 and following the success of the Brahms Trios with Kavakos and Ma, the trio launched an ambitious, multi-year project to record all the Beethoven Trios and Symphonies arranged for trio of which the first two discs have recently been released. He has received GRAMMY® Awards for the second and third volumes of his cycle of Haydn’s piano sonatas. He has also made a series of Grammy-winning recordings with cellist Yo-Yo Ma of the Beethoven and Brahms sonatas for cello and piano. In the 2004/05 season Mr. Ax contributed to an International EMMY® Award-Winning BBC documentary commemorating the Holocaust that aired on the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. In 2013, Mr. Ax’s recording Variations received the Echo Klassik Award for Solo Recording of the Year (19th Century Music/Piano).

Mr. Ax is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and holds honorary doctorates of music from Skidmore College, New England Conservatory of Music, Yale University, and Columbia University. For more information about Mr. Ax’s career, please visit www.EmanuelAx.com.

OFFICIAL BIO FOR THE 2023-2024 SEASON. LAST UPDATED JULY 2023.

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Next Concerts

    March 22, 2024

    Houston Symphony

    Houston, TX

    MOZART Piano Concerto K.503

    with Juraj Valcuha, conductor

    March 23, 2024

    Houston Symphony

    Houston, TX

    MOZART Piano Concerto K.503

    with Juraj Valcuha, conductor

    March 24, 2024

    Houston Symphony

    Houston, TX

    MOZART Piano Concerto K.503

    with Juraj Valcuha, conductor

    April 5, 2024

    Modlin Center

    Richmond, VA

    recital

    April 7, 2024

    Harriman Jewell Series

    Kansas City, MO

    recital

    April 12, 2024

    Savannah Music Festival

    Savannah, GA

    recital

    April 17, 2024

    Philadelphia Chamber Music Society

    Philadelphia, PA

    recital

    April 21, 2024

    Carnegie Hall

    New York, NY

    recital

NY Philharmonic

Artist-in-Residence: Emanuel Ax 2012/13.
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Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4
Brahms: Music For 2 Pianos
Haydn: Piano Sonatas
Liszt: Piano Sonata in B Minor
Mendelssohn: Piano Trios
Strauss: Enoch Arden

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Extract from masterclass given by Emanuel Ax on Beethoven Piano Sonatas and Variations. The student is Nicolas Van Poucke. The full masterclass is available on DVD from www.masterclassfoundation.org

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