Piano concert by Michael Abramovich on the occasion of the presentation of the Call for Papers for the 2025 edition of the international PEA – Pedagogy, Ecology, and the Arts Conference. Sunday, 23 February 2025, 11.00, Merano Academy.
Programm
Johann Sebastian Bach
Partita Nr 4 BMW 828
Fryderyk Chopin
3 Mazurkas Op 59
Barcarolle Op 60
Franz Liszt
Reminiscenze dal “Don Giovanni” di Mozart
Michael Abramovic
The pianist Michael Abramovich was born in Bucharest and grew up in Jerusalem. He studied in Israel with Esther Narkiss and Viktor Derevianko and with Nina Svetlanova in New York. He was recipient of the America-Israel Cultural Foundation Scholarship. 1993 he won the first prize at the Tel-Aviv Rubin Academy Piano Master Competition. 1994 he made his debut with a solo recital in Merkin Hall, New York. Since 1997 Michael Abramovich lives in Berlin.
A compelling, original interpreter of music from baroque to contemporary, pianist Michael Abramovich has given recitals at the Mozarteum Salzburg, the Konzerthaus Berlin, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, the Philharmonie Köln, Birmingham’s Symphony Hall, Carnegie Hall, the Palais des Beaux-Arts Bruxelles, Cité de la Musique (Paris), the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and at Athens’ Megaron. Michael Abramovich toured South Africa playing all five Beethoven piano concertos with the Ludwigsburg Festival Orchestra and appeared as soloist with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Euskadi, Filarmonica “George Enescu” Bucharest, and the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra. A frequent guest at festivals including the Beethovenfest Bonn, Bard Music Festival (New York) and the Festival de Radio France in Montpellier, Abramovich’s musical partners include Anne-Sophie Mutter, Daniel Behle and Piotr Beczala, as well as distinguished actors Dieter Mann and Barbara Schnitzler. Abramovich gave the world premiere of “Neuf Études pour piano et dispositif informatique” by Pierre Charvet, recording the cycle for Accord/Universal Classics France. Together with violinist Ittai Shapira he recorded violin sonatas by Janácek, Debussy and R. Strauss for Meridian Records (U.K.) and for Deutsche Grammophon, he recorded songs by Friedrich Hollaender with actress Dagmar Manzel and the orchestra of Komische Oper Berlin.