Emanuel Ax

Emanuel Ax is renowned as one of the world's top classical music pianists with plaudits from critics and audiences around the world for his performances of the classic works by composers such as Beethoven, Chopin, Dvorák, Haydn, Mozart and Rachmaninov plus pieces by contemporary composers including Paul Hindemith, Hans Warner Henze and Michael Tippett. He collaborates frequently with cellist Yo-Yo Ma and their 2017 recording 'Brahms: The Piano Trios' with violinist Leonidas Kavakos went to number seven on Billboard's Classical Albums Chart. Born in what is now Ukraine, his family moved to Winnipeg, Canada where he continued early piano lessons from his father and after they moved to New York in 1961 he studied at the Juilliard School and at Columbia University. He debuted in the Young Concert Artists Series and won the first initial Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition in Tel Aviv in 1974. He released albums of works by Chopin and Beethoven and in 1977 his album 'Dvorák: Piano Quintet in A, Op. 81' with the Cleveland Quartet earned him the first of 18 Grammy Award nominations, this one for Best Chamber Music Performance. Based in New York where he is a teacher on the faculty of the Juilliard School, Ax performs regularly with performances in 2017 in many American cities and in Budapest and London where he played Brahms, Mozart and Beethoven works at the BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall with the Vienna Philharmonic. His 2018 2018 tour with Yo-Yo Ma and Kavakos took them across America and Canada.

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