Ammiel Bushakevitz
Piano
Born in Jerusalem and raised in Cape Town, Ammiel began playing the piano at the age of four. He has performed as soloist, chamber musician and song pianist on six continents, including at New York's Carnegie Hall, London's Wigmore Hall, the Paris Philharmonie, Berlin Konzerthaus, Amsterdam Concertgebouw and the Shanghai Concert Hall. His performances include the festivals of Salzburg, Lucerne, Bayreuth, Aix-en-Provence, Heidelberg, Milan, Montreal, Beijing, Brasilia, Melbourne and the Schubertiades of Schwarzenberg, Hohenems, Vilabertran and Tel-Aviv.
Ammiel grew up in South Africa and studied at the Hochschule of Leipzig and the Conservatoire of Paris. He has a special love for Lieder and was one of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau's last private pupils. Ammiel is an alumnus of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), an Edison Fellow of the British Library, London, a member of the Société des Arts Sciences et Lettres de Paris, and artistic director of the international cultural association, Les Voix d'Orphée.
Both as a soloist and as a Lied pianist, Ammiel Bushakevitz has a close relationship with the music of Franz Schubert. Together with the baritone Samuel Hasselhorn and the label Harmonia Mundi, he is in the midst of an exciting project called "Schubert 200", leading up to the 200th anniversary of Schubert in 2028. Together with Hänssler Classics, Ammiel is developing a long-term project to record Schubert's complete solo piano works.