This Russian piano virtuoso is not yet 30 years old, but has since grown from a particularly talented child prodigy into one of the most striking musicians of his generation. For him, playing the piano did not start with Mozart, Beethoven and Chopin, but with Rameau's 'Tambourin', a work he played at his very first concert - Lifschitz was exactly four years old at the time. As a ten-year-old, he already performed solo in a Bach program with a string orchestra - his CD recordings of Bach works received considerable international acclaim in the 1990s. Lifschitz's greatest motivation is the quest for his own expressive power and means of expression: playing Bach's music helps him in this exhausting but joyful quest. In fact, he believes that diction is the best criterion for identifying performing musicians; through diction, vulgar reproduction becomes a particularly powerful artistic interpretation. After studying in London, he spent several years in Italy, where he resolved to convey to listeners a kind of pantheistic perception of nature. He also expresses this vision at the Royal College of Music in London, where he has been a Fellow since last year. Today he also incorporates phenomena such as medieval architecture, the bizarre immobility of the Japanese theater and 'lyrical metropolitanity' into his musical thinking. In short, a strange but very fascinating artist.
