Born in Jerusalem and raised in South Africa, Ammiel Bushakevitz specializes as a Lieder pianist and is a laureate of numerous international art song competitions. He has appeared at festivals including Salzburg, Bayreuth, Lucerne, Shanghai and Aix-en-Provence and at the Leeds International Piano Series. Bushakevitz is one of the last private students of the late Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and is a graduate of the University of Music and Theatre ‘Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy’ in Leipzig and the Conservatoire de Paris. His mentors included Phillip Moll, Boris Berman and Alfred Brendel. Ammiel Bushakevitz is a member of the Société des Arts Sciences et Lettres of Paris, an honorary member of the International Richard Wagner Society and an Edison Fellow of the British Library, London. He is artistic director of the Association Internationale Les Voix d’Orphée in Paris.
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