Maestoso Records proudly presents Brian Ganz performing Chopin Preludes.
Brian Ganz is widely regarded as one of the leading pianists of his generation. After a 1999 All-Chopin recital, Washington Post critic Joan Reinthaler wrote. “One comes away from a recital by pianist Brian Ganz not only exhilerated by the power of the performance but also moved by his search for artistic truth.”
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Brian Ganz was winner of one of two First Grand Prizes awarded in the 1989 Marguerite Long Jacques Thibaud International Piano Competition in Paris. That same year he won a Beethoven Fellowship awarded by the American Pianists Association, and in 1991 he was a silver medalist in the Queen Elisabeth of Belgium International Piano Competition. After his performance the critic for La Libre Belgique wrote: “We don't have the words to speak of this fabulous musician who lives music with a generous urgency and brings his public into a state of intense joy.”
Mr. Ganz has appeared as soloist with such orchestras as the St. Louis Symphony, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic (of Russia), the Baltimore Symphony, the National Symphony, the Buffalo Philaharmonic, the City of London Sinfonia, L'Orchestre Lamoreaux, and L'Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo, under the baton of such conductors as Leonard Slatkin, Mstislav Rostropovich, Philippe Entremont, Pinchas Zukerman, Leon Fleisher, Marin Alsop, David Leobel, Jerzey Semkow, George Manahan and Gustav Meier.
Mr. Ganz is a graduate of the Peabody Conservatory of Music, where he studied with Leon Fleisher. Earlier teachers include Ylda Novik and the late Claire Deene. Mr. Ganz is Artist-in-Residence at St. Mary's College of Maryland, where he has been a member of the piano faculty since 1986, and in 2000 he joined the piano faculty of the Peabody Conservatory.
A founding member of the Washington Chapter of Artists to End Hunger, Brian Ganz resides in Annapolis, Maryland with his wife Tatiana and their son Dylan.