Jan Lisiecki
Canadian pianist Jan Lisiecki looks back on a career spanning a decade and a half on the world’s greatest stages. He works closely with the foremost conductors and orchestras of our time, performing over a hundred concerts a year.
The 2024/2025 season saw him returning to Boston Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Münchner Philharmoniker, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and Seattle Symphony. He led the Academy of St Martin in the Fields on a tour of 19 concerts throughout Germany and Austria, with residencies at Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie, in Munich and Cologne, performing the complete piano concertos by Ludwig van Beethoven. As a Toronto Symphony Orchestra’s ‘Artist in Residence’, he opened the ensemble’s season and returned to lead from the piano Beethoven’s complete concertos.
He brought his acclaimed Preludes solo recital programme, recently celebrated at Carnegie Hall’s Isaac Stern Auditorium, to Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Théâtre des Champs‑Élysées in Paris, Herbst Theatre in San Francisco, Bozar in Brussels and during the Klavier-Festival Ruhr. A duo programme of Mozart, Beethoven and Schumann together with Julia Fischer brought him to 15 venues across Europe and the United States, including New York’s Lincoln Center, Chicago Symphony Center, Boston’s Jordan Hall, Berliner Philharmonie, Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg and Prinzregententheater in Munich.
Recent return invitations include the New York Philharmonic, The Cleveland Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich and Staatskapelle Dresden. He made his debut with the Berliner Philharmoniker in spring 2024. Jan Lisiecki is a fixture at major summer festivals across Europe and North America, has performed at the Salzburger Festspiele and recently made his third appearance at the BBC Proms. His previous recital programme was celebrated in over 50 cities around the globe.
At the age of 15, Jan Lisiecki was offered an exclusive recording contract by Deutsche Grammophon. Since then, he has recorded nine albums which have been awarded with the JUNO Award, ECHO Klassik, Gramophone Critics’ Choice, Diapason d’Or and Edison Klassiek. At 18, the pianist received both the Leonard Bernstein Award and Gramophone’s Young Artist of the Year Award, becoming the youngest ever recipient of the latter. In 2012, he was named UNICEF Ambassador to Canada.
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