Andreas Haefliger

The Swiss pianist Andreas Haefliger, who was born in Berlin in 1962, was admitted to New York’s Juilliard School at the age of 15, where he took Herbert Stessin’s piano class. Honored with several prizes — he was twice awarded the Gina Bachauer Memorial Scholarship — he began his career in the United States and soon appeared as a soloist with such orchestras as the New York and Los Angeles Philharmonics; the Boston, Chicago, and San Francisco Symphonies; and the Cleveland and Philadelphia Orchestras. In Europe, too, he has appeared as a guest with renowned orchestras and at festivals, performing with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Rotterdam Philharmonic, the London Symphony, the Orchestre de Paris, the Munich Philharmonic, the Budapest Festival Orchestra, and the Vienna Symphony. Andreas Haefliger has appeared at the Salzburg Festival, the Vienna Festival, and the BBC Proms and is a regular performer at the Edinburgh Festival, the Vienna Konzerthaus, and London’s Wigmore Hall. In 2022, also at Wigmore Hall, he performed violin sonatas by Beethoven with Hilary Hahn, which they presented in Japan and the USA as well. In addition, last season he performed the Schumann Concerto with the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra and Marin Alsop and played Mozart with the Camerata Salzburg and Andrew Manze. In his “Perspectives” series, which he has presented world-wide in concerts and on CD since 2004, Andreas Haefliger has combined works by Beethoven with music from Mozart to Ligeti. Other albums have been devoted to piano pieces by Schumann and Schubert, sonatas by Mozart, and works by Sofia Gubaidulina. For his recording of Schubert’s Goethe lieder with Matthias Goerne, Andreas Haefliger received the German Record Critics’ Prize. His recording of Dieter Ammann’s The Piano Concerto (Gran Toccata), which he had previously premiered at the BBC Proms, was released in 2019.

Lucerne Festival (IMF) debut on 24 August 1985 as part of the “Young Artists” series in a recital with his brother, Michael Haefliger, playing violin sonatas by Ives, Beethoven, and Strauss.

July 2022