Dag Achatz

Dag Achatz is widely admired not merely for his key pad virtuosity but also for his amazing eclecticism in both repertory and functionality procedures. The Swedish-born virtuoso reaches house in the single functions of Schumann and Liszt; in the glittery, jazzier bits of Gershwin and Bernstein; in the piano concertos of little-known composers like Pierné and Boldemann; and in a multitude of the two-piano repertory, specifically transcriptions and agreements of well-known traditional orchestral functions. Achatz has produced some of these transcriptions himself, including an extremely praised rendition of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Springtime. Achatz in addition has designed a piano edition from the Bernstein ballet Luxury Free, and a collection of quantities from West Aspect Story. He provides often made an appearance in concert and on recordings in two-piano repertory with Japanese virtuoso Yukie Nagai. Achatz provides made the majority of his almost 30 recordings for the Swedish label BIS. A small amount of earlier initiatives was released on EMI, Melodiya, and Americus Information. Dag Achatz was created in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1942. His parents had been musicians who in early stages relocated the family members to Switzerland. Achatz was a kid prodigy, divulging therefore extraordinary a key pad talent concerning enable him to enter the Geneva Conservatory at age eight. After graduation, the gifted teen came back to Stockholm for research with Greta Erickson. Later on educators included an iconic couple of key pad giants: Alfred Cortot and Vlado Perlemuter. Achatz received the Lausanne-based Rudolf Ganz Competition in 1960 as well as the 1964 Maria Callas Competition in Barcelona. His status continuously grew, as his desire for transcribing also required wing. His 1981 BIS documenting of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Springtime was a feeling, and through the entire decade he proved several additional essential recordings, including a Compact disc of the entire functions of George Gershwin (1989). After hearing the Stravinsky Rite, Bernstein asked Achatz to accomplish the transcription of Nice Free, that was issued with an all-Bernstein Compact disc in 1986. By 2000 Achatz experienced appeared in lots of of the main concert locations in Europe, america, and china and taiwan. He has frequently conducted expert classes (Umea Conservatory, Sweden; Osaka Conservatory, Japan). While Achatz offers remained occupied in the brand new hundred years both concertizing and teaching, he continues to be less mixed up in recording studio room. Among his later on CDs may be the 1999 BIS launch of Wagner transcriptions (two-piano plans by Maximum Reger) with Yukie Nagai.