Summer 2023
Piano Lieven Festival

The Lieven Foundation Summer Festival takes place every summer during the months of July and August. Concerts are held weekly at the Steinway House as well as Bösendorfer Salon and Vivaldi Hall. Under the direction of its artistic director Alon Goldstein, the foundation invites eight highly distinguished young pianists to spend eight weeks in the city of Vienna, to receive masterclasses as well as performing opportunities. The faculty includes such piano masters as Ferenc Rados, Alfred Brendel, Elisso Virsaladze, Andreas Staier, Arie Vardi, Ronald Brautigam, Tatiana Zelikman as well as Davide Cabassi, Claudio Martinez Mehner, Konstantin Lifschitz Ingrid Fliter, Alexei Volodin, and Alon Goldstein. This year the festival will commence on July 3rd until August 25th. Masterclasses are held at the MdW in Anton von Webern Platz.

Alon Goldstein
Alon Goldstein
Artistic director

Matteo Generani
Matteo Generani
Festival coordinator and assistant to the artistic director

Faculty

Summer 2023 faculty – teachers

Tatiana Zelikman
Tatiana Zelikman
July 3-7

Alon Goldstein
Alon Goldstein
July 10-14

Elisso Virsaladze
Elisso Virsaladze
July 17-21

Davide Cabassi
Davide Cabassi
July 24-28

Ingrid Fliter
Ingrid Fliter
July 31-Aug. 4

Konstantin Lifschitz
Konstantin Lifschitz
Aug. 7-11

Andreas Staier
Andreas Staier
Aug. 14-18

Robert McDonald
Robert McDonald
Aug. 20-24

Summer 2023 faculty – students

Sofia Donato
Sofia Donato
Chaeyoung Park
Chaeyoung Park
Jean-Paul Gasparian
Jean-Paul Gasparian
Wataru Mashimo
Wataru Mashimo
Avery Gagliano
Avery Gagliano
Vsevolod Zavidov
Vsevolod Zavidov
Shio Okui
Shio Okui
Jacopo Fulimeni
Jacopo Fulimeni
Valentin Magyar
Valentin Magyar
Barbare Tataradze
Barbare Tataradze
Dina Ivanova
Dina Ivanova
Roman Borisov
Roman Borisov
Janice Carissa
Janice Carissa
Antonio Alessandri
Antonio Alessandri
Eva Garet
Eva Garet
Calvin Abdiel
Calvin Abdiel

Faculty

Past

first name / surname website year of the masterclasses
Paul Badura-Skoda www.badura-skoda.cc 2019
Gabriele Baldocci www.gabrielebaldocci.com 2019
Dimitri Bashkirov en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri_Bashkirov 1994-2004, 2012-2014, 2020
Boris Berman www.borisberman.com 2003
Davide Cabassi www.davidecabassi.com 2019-2021
Alicia de Larrocha aliciadelarrocha.com 1999-2001
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietrich_Fischer-Dieskau 1994
Leon Fleisher en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Fleisher 1994-1997, 1999-2001, 2004
Claude Frank en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Frank 2001, 2003, 2004, 2008
Peter Frankl en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Frank 2003, 2010
Caroline Gautier www.archipel.org/archive/bios_int/txtgautier 2001
Alon Goldstein www.alongoldstein.com 2019-2021
Stanislav Ioudenitch en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Ioudenitch 2012-2014
Graham Johnson en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Johnson_(musician) 2001
Stephen Kovacevich en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Kovacevich 1994, 1996, 2019
Konstantin Lifschitz konstantinlifschitz.de 2020, 2021
Jean-Marc Luisada en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Marc_Luisada 2019, 2020
Moura Lympany en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moura_Lympany 1996
Jura Margulis www.juramargulis.com 2019-2021
Claudio Martínez-Mehner www.musikakademie.li 2020
Bill Naboré https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Grant_Naboré 1993-2014
Murray Perahia murrayperahia.com 1995, 1996
John Perry www.johnperrypiano.com 2006, 2010, 2013
Menahem Pressler menahempressler.org 2004, 2005, 2019
Ferenc Rados de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferenc_Rados 2020, 2021
Paul Roberts paulrobertspiano.com 2021
Charles Rosen wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Rosen 1995-2001
Karl-Ulrich Schnabel en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Ulrich_Schnabel 1993-2000
Andreas Staier andreas-staier.de 1999, 2001-2006, 2020, 2021
Fou Ts’ong en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fou_Ts’ong 1994-2002, 2004, 2008, 2009, 2014
Rosalyn Tureck en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalyn_Tureck 1994, 1996-2000
Alexei Volodin www.harrisonparrott.com/artists/alexei-volodin 2020
Galina Vracheva 1995, 2012
Rita Wagner lfze.hu 2020, 2021
Alexis Weissenberg en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_Weissenberg 1996, 1997, 2000
Tatiana Zelikman https://ru.m.wikipedia.org 2021
Lilya Zilberstein lilyazilberstein.com 2020, 2021