Emmanuel Ax - piano
New York, New York, USA

Emanuel Ax was born in Lvov, Poland He began to study the piano at the age of six in Warsaw. The family moved to Winnipeg in 1961 and he later continued his studies at The Juilliard School. He is also a graduate of Columbia University where he majored in French. He won the Rubinstein Competition in 1974 and was awarded the Avery Fisher Prize in 1979. He lives in New York with his wife, the pianist Yoko Nozaki, and their two children.

Influencing Teachers: Mieczyslaw Munz

Performer:

• Soloist.
• Chamber Music. Regular duo concerts with Yo-Yo Ma (over 20 years). Piano quartet with Stern, Laredo and Ma.
• Major supporter of contemporary composers.

Teacher:

• Julliard School since 1990
• Master Classes.

Recordings: Grammaphone and Granny awards

• Concertos:
• Sonatas:
• Chamber music. Several Grammy winning recordings with Yo-Yo Ma.
• Video performing Brahms Piano Quartets with Isaac Stern, Jaime Laredo and Yo-Yo Ma.
• Los Tangueros - crossover collaboration with pianist Pablo Ziegler in two-piano arrangements of tangos and milongas by Astor Piazzolla

Updated May 14, 2000