Andreas Haefliger Piano Recital

Published on Mar 9, 2015

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Genre: NCPA

Dates: Saturday, April 25, 2015

Prices: 50, 80, 180, 280, 380

Features: The German-born Swiss pianist, Andreas Haefliger will be performing the great works of the classical piano repertoires at concert hall of NCPA in Beijing on Saturday 25th of April 2015.

BRIEF INTRODUCTION

Andreas Haefliger was born into a distinguished musical family and grew up in Switzerland, going on to study at the Juilliard School in New York. With his formidable technique and musicality, and his innate sense of architecture and phrasing, he was quickly recognised as a pianist of the first rank. Engagements with major US orchestras followed swiftly – the New York Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, Pittsburgh, Chicago and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestras among them.

In his native Europe too, Haefliger was invited and continues to return to the great orchestras and festivals – such as the Royal Concertgebouw, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Munich Philharmonic, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Deutsche Symphonie Orchester Berlin, Orchestre de Paris, London Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra and Vienna Symphony. He also established himself as a superb recitalist, making his New York debut in 1988, and became frequent performer at premier recital venues and festivals around the world, notably the Lucerne and Salzburg Festivals, the BBC Proms and the Wiener Festwochen.

As a recitalist and chamber musician, Haefliger excels in finding the most immediate expression. He was described in The Guardian after a recent recital at the Wigmore Hall as “…one to take risks, which make him a fascinating artist”, and in an earlier review in The Independent, “there seems to be no limit to the resources of Haefliger’s touch”. The Wigmore Hall has also presented Haefliger in a three-part series of recitals together with the baritone Matthias Goerne, The Takacs Quartet, Marina Piccinini and the Safri Duo. Further to this, Haefliger has performed a series of recitals in New York, London and Milan, with his late father, the great tenor Ernst Haefliger, in Schubert's Die Winterreise. In recent years Andreas Haefliger has collaborated with the Carmina Quartet, Wolfgang Holzmair, Matthias Goerne and his wife, Marina Piccinini.