Christian Zacharias

Christian Zacharias
Background information
Born	1950
Origin	German
Genres	Classical
Occupations	Conductor
Instruments	Piano
Website	www.christianzacharias.com

Christian Zacharias (born 1950 in Jamshedpur)^[1] is a German pianist and conductor.

Music career

Zacharias studied piano with Irene Slavin and Vlado Perlemuter in Paris. He won the Geneva Competition in 1969 and the Van Cliburn Competition in 1973. After winning the Ravel Competition in Paris in 1975, he launched an international career. He has performed chamber music with such partners as the Alban Berg Quartet, the Guarneri Quartet, the Leipzig String Quartet, Heinrich Schiff, and Frank Peter Zimmermann. He made many recordings, among them a 1979 recording of 33 sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti (available on EMI classics).

He began his conducting career in 1992^[2] with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande in Geneva. He made his US debut in 2000 with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Since 2000, he has been artistic director of the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra.^[3] Since 2002, he has been principal guest conductor of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra.

References

1. ^ "Christian Zacharias all'Accademia Nazionale di S.Cecilia" (in Italian). Giornale Radio Rai. 17 November 2006. http://www.radio.rai.it/radio3/radio3_suite/mostra_evento.cfm?Q_EV_ID=227566. Retrieved 23 April 2010. 
2. ^ Kozinn, Allan (10 August 2001). "A Haydn Display Piece Gives Soloists Chances to Shine". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/10/movies/music-review-a-haydn-display-piece-gives-soloists-chances-to-shine.html?pagewanted=1. Retrieved 23 April 2010. 
3. ^ "Un été sans fausse note‎" (in French). La Nouvelliste. 30 March 2010. http://www.lenouvelliste.ch/fr/news/culture/un-ete-sans-fausse-note-14-195948. Retrieved 23 April 2010. 

External links

• IMG Artists Full Biography
• Christian Zacharias official website

Preceded by Jesús López-Cobos

Artistic Director, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne 2000-present

Succeeded by incumbent

Persondata
Name	Zacharias, Christian
Alternative names
Short description	German conductor and Pianist
Date of birth	1950
Place of birth
Date of death
Place of death