Ammiel Bushakevitz

Ammiel Bushakevitz was born in Jerusalem, grew up in South Africa and began piano lessons at the age of four. He studied in Berlin, Leipzig and Paris, with teachers including Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Helmut Deutsch and Alfred Brendel. As one of the last private students of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, he was invited to accompany the singer’s masterclasses at the Berlin University of the Arts and at the Schubertiade in Schwarzenberg. Since then, he has performed with singers including Teresa Berganza, Brigitte Fassbaender, Elly Ameling, Barbara Bonney, Thomas Hampson, Thomas Quasthoff, Matthias Goerne and Robert Holl.

Ammiel Bushakevitz has performed as a soloist and chamber musician at prestigious festivals in Europe, North and South America, Asia, Africa and Australia, among them the festivals of Lucerne, Salzburg, Bayreuth, Oxford, at the Heidelberg Spring Festival, the Aix-en-Provence Festival, and at the Schwarzenberg and Israel Schubertiades. Upcoming engagements include concert tours to China, Australia, New Zealand and the USA, and appearances at the Wigmore Hall in London, the Berlin Konzerthaus, the Shanghai Concert Hall and Carnegie Hall, New York.

Bushakevitz is a prize-winner of numerous international competitions, such as the competition Das Lied in Berlin, the International Schubert Competition, the International Johannes Brahms Competition, the Concours international Léopold Bellan de Paris, the International Art Song Competition of the Hugo Wolf Academy in Stuttgart, as well as the Concours musicale international de Montréal. He won joint First Prize, the Pianist Prize and the Schubert Lieder Prize at the Wigmore Hall International Song Competition in London in 2013.

His debut album, of works by Schubert, was used as the soundtrack for the Austrian film Gwendolyn. Since then, he has made several award-winning solo CDs. In 2022 he and Laetitia Grimaldi released a song album featuring works by forgotten female composers and entitled Ombres. Women Composers of La Belle Époque.

His awards include the Richard-Wagner-Award from the City of Leipzig and the Prix de la Ville de Lausanne. Ammiel Bushakevitz is a member of the Société académique Arts-Sciences-Lettres in Paris, an honorary member of the International Richard Wagner Society and an Edison Fellow of the British Library in London. He is the artistic director of the international arts association Les Voix d’Orphée and gives regular masterclasses for young pianists.