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Jan Miłosz Lisiecki (born March 23, 1995) is a classical pianist. ==Life and career== Jan Miłosz Lisiecki was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada to Polish parents. He began studying piano at the age of five. Lisiecki had his orchestral debut at the age of 9, and has since performed with orchestras in Canada and internationally, including the New York Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, National Arts Centre Orchestra, Montreal Symphony Orchestra, to name a few. Lisiecki has performed with conductors Claudio Abbado, David Zinman, Paavo Järvi, Antonio Pappano, and Yannick Nézet-Séguin. On January 1, 2010 Lisiecki opened the Chopin 200th Birthday celebrations from the composers’ birthplace, Żelazowa Wola. The same month, he performed Chopin Concerto No. 1 in E minor at the MIDEM Classical Awards Gala in Cannes, France. Lisiecki performed for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and a hundred thousand people on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Canada, as part of the Canada Day 2011 celebrations. Lisiecki has played at the Royal Albert Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Carnegie Hall, Salle Pleyel, Tonhalle Zürich, Konzerthaus Vienna, and Suntory Hall, and has substituted for pianists such as Martha Argerich,〔(), Slipped Disc, March 14, 2013〕 and Nelson Freire. Lisiecki has shared the stage with Yo-Yo Ma, Pinchas Zukerman, James Ehnes, Emanuel Ax, and Truls Mørk performing at various concert venues in Armenia, Belgium, Brasil, Canada, China, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Guatemala, Greece, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, South Korea, Spain, Sweden. Switzerland, UK, and the USA. Lisiecki has appeared at festivals including the Verbier Festival, Festival de la Roque d'Antheron, Merano Festival, Chopin and his Europe Festival and many others in Canada and the USA. In 2008, Lisiecki performed the Chopin F minor Concerto and was named the sensation of the prestigious festival “Chopin and His Europe” in Poland. In 2009, he returned to Warsaw, performing the Chopin E minor Concerto, and received glowing reviews and praise from critics. Lisiecki's debut CD, featuring these two live performances, with Sinfonia Varsovia and Howard Shelley, was released in early 2010 by the Fryderyk Chopin Institute. The CD was awarded the prestigious Diapason d’Or Découverte award in May 2010. The Diapason magazine describes Lisiecki as “an unmannered virtuoso already with virile, and above all, irresistibly natural playing.” BBC Music Magazine’s July 2010 review commended "Lisiecki's mature musicality,” and his “sensitively distilled” interpretation of the contrasting concerti, played “with sparkling technique as well as idiomatic pathos”, noting that “even in a crowded CD catalogue, this refreshingly unhyped CD release is one to celebrate". Lisiecki was featured in the CBC Next! Series on March 1, 2009, on Sunday Afternoon in Concert as one of the most promising young artists in Canada. On September 7, 2009, CBC National News broadcast a Joe Schlesinger documentary about Lisiecki, ("A Reluctant Prodigy" ). In April, 2013, Lisiecki was named one of Canada's future leaders by ''Maclean's'' Magazine.〔(), ''Maclean's'', April 12, 2013〕 In May 2013, he was featured by the national German television ZDF in the ''Heute Journal''.〔(), Heute Journal, May 2013〕 In June 2008, Lisiecki was appointed a National Youth Representative by UNICEF Canada.〔(), Calgary Herald, November 3, 2008〕 Since 2012, Lisiecki is a UNICEF Canada Ambassador. Upon the school board’s recommendation Lisiecki was accelerated four grades. In January 2011, he graduated from Western Canada High School in Calgary, Canada. Since September 2011 he has been studying with Marc Durand for a Bachelor of Music at the Glenn Gould School of Music in Toronto on a full scholarship. In October 2010 Lisiecki and Deutsche Grammophon signed an exclusive recording-agreement.〔(), Calgary Herald, September 30, 2010〕 Lisiecki’s debut recording for Deutsche Grammophon features Mozart’s Piano Concertos no. 20, K. 466 and no. 21, K. 467 and was released internationally on April 16, 2012.〔(), New York Times (March 29, 2013)〕 Since 2010 Lisiecki is represented by IMG Artists. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jan Lisiecki」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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