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Krystian Zimerman was born on 5 December, 1956 in Zabrze, Poland, is a Polish classical pianist (born 1956). Discover Krystian Zimerman's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 67 years old?

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Occupation Pianist, conductor, pedagogue
Age 67 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 5 December 1956
Birthday 5 December
Birthplace Zabrze, Poland
Nationality Poland

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1956

Krystian Zimerman (born 5 December 1956) is a Polish concert pianist, conductor and pedagogue who has been described as one of the greatest pianists of his generation.

1973

In 1973, he won top prize at the Ludwig van Beethoven International Piano Competition in Hradec Králové, Czechoslovakia.

1975

In 1975, he won the IX International Chopin Piano Competition.

Following the success at the Chopin Piano Competition, he began his collaboration with the Berlin Philharmonic and has since performed with leading orchestras around the world as well as many prominent conductors such as Leonard Bernstein, Pierre Boulez, Herbert von Karajan, Claudio Abbado and Simon Rattle.

He is especially known for his performances of compositions by Mozart, Chopin, Brahms and Beethoven.

His international career was launched when he won the 1975 Warsaw International Chopin Piano Competition.

1976

He performed with the Berlin Philharmonic in 1976, conducted by Herbert Blomstedt.

1979

He debuted in the United States with the New York Philharmonic in 1979.

He has toured widely and made a number of recordings.

1981

In 1981, Zimerman moved to Röschenz in the canton of Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland, where he also became a Swiss citizen with Röschenz as his place of origin.

According to conflicting sources, he's still living in Röschenz, or in Binningen, also near Basel.

He married Maria (née Drygajło), a violinist, with whom he has two children: Klaudia and Ryszard.

He divides his time among family, concerts, and performances of chamber music.

Zimerman is an editor of the piano music of Władysław Szpilman for Boosey & Hawkes.

Most of Zimerman's recordings have been released by Deutsche Grammophon, with which he has an exclusive lifelong contract.

1994

He is also the recipient of many awards and honours including Léonie Sonning Music Prize (1994), Legion of Honour (2005), Order of Polonia Restituta (2013) and Praemium Imperiale (2022).

Zimerman was born in Zabrze, Southern Poland, and started to play the piano at the age of five encouraged by his father, who was also a pianist.

He studied at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice under Andrzej Jasiński.

1996

Since 1996, he has taught piano at the Music Academy in Basel, Switzerland.

1999

In 1999, Zimerman created the Polish Festival Orchestra to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Frédéric Chopin's death.

Zimerman is best known for his interpretations of Romantic music, but has performed a wide variety of classical pieces and is a supporter of contemporary music.

Witold Lutosławski wrote his Piano Concerto for Zimerman, who has recorded it twice.

Among his best-known recordings are the concerti of Grieg and Schumann with Herbert von Karajan; the Brahms concerti with Leonard Bernstein; the piano concerti of Chopin, one recording conducted by Carlo Maria Giulini and a later one conducted by himself at the keyboard; the Third, Fourth and Fifth Piano Concertos of Beethoven under Bernstein (Zimerman himself led the Vienna Philharmonic from the keyboard in Beethoven's First and Second Concertos); the first and second piano concerti of Rachmaninoff; the piano concerti of Liszt with Seiji Ozawa, the piano concerti of Ravel with Pierre Boulez, and solo piano works by Chopin, Liszt (including one of the most virtuosic performances of the famous Piano Sonata in B minor), Debussy and Schubert.

2001

In incidents in 2001 and 2006, one of his Steinway pianos was completely destroyed and another one damaged by security staff at New York JFK airport.

2006

In 2006, Zimerman recorded Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Sir Simon Rattle (DG 477 5413; Limited Edition DG 477 6021).

Zimerman has collaborated with conductors and artists such as Claudio Abbado, Daniel Barenboim, Leonard Bernstein, Pierre Boulez, Charles Dutoit, Carlo Maria Giulini, Bernard Haitink, Herbert von Karajan, Kirill Kondrashin, Erich Leinsdorf, Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, Seiji Ozawa, Simon Rattle, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Stanisław Skrowaczewski and Wolfgang Sawallisch.

He had made a similar comment in 2006, stating he would not return until George W. Bush was out of office.

he has not made any further appearances in the United States.

Part of his disenchantment with the USA may be the increased security at US airports, which makes it difficult to bring his piano into the country.

2009

On 26 April 2009, Zimerman vowed to his audience at Los Angeles's Walt Disney Concert Hall that, in protest at America's placement of a missile defense shield in Poland, this would be his final appearance in the United States.