Dorothy Khadem-Missagh
Dorothy Khadem-Missagh (born 26 November 1992) is an Austrian pianist.
Life[]
Born in Mödling, Khadem-Missagh was born in Austria as the youngest child of a family of musicians and grew up in Baden near Vienna. As a pianist, she continues the musical work of her family in the fourth generation. Her father Bijan Khadem-Missagh is a violinist and conductor. He is the founder and long-time artistic director of the international chamber music festival and was concertmaster of the Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich. Her sister Martha and brother Vahid[1] are violinists.
She received her first piano lessons at the age of three, was able to play her first Bach prelude six months later, and was admitted to the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna when she was only six.[2] She studied there with Noel Flores, Stefan Arnold and , among others. She received further musical impulses from Martha Argerich and Pavel Gililov as well as at the "Verbier Festival Academy" by András Schiff, Ferenc Rados, Arie Vardi, Robert Levin, Gábor Takács-Nagy and Menahem Pressler.
In 2011, Khadem-Missagh made her debut in the Great Hall of the Vienna Musikvereins with Joseph Haydn's Piano Concerto in D Major.[3] Since then, she has been regularly invited by the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna for solo specials[4] and chamber music concerts[5] at the Vienna Musikverein and the Wiener Konzerthaus.[6][7] Further performances took place at the , the International Festival "Allegro Vivo", the , the Chopin Festival Gaming[8] the Norwegian Youth Chamber Music Festival as well as the International Kyoto Festival. Concert tours have taken her throughout Europe, to Japan and China as well as to the US and Canada.
Awards[]
Khadem-Missagh is a multiple prize winner of the [9] and the 13th International Piano Competition for Young Pianists in Ettlingen. She is the winner of the International Béla Bartók Competition Vienna,[10] finalist of the New York International Piano Competition and has won many awards in other international and national competitions.
, the International Piano Competition "Ricard Viñes"References[]
- ^ Vahid Khadem-Missagh on khadem-missagh.com
- ^ "Interview with pianist Dorothy Khadem-Missagh". Retrieved 6 August 2021.
- ^ Scholars of the Int. Mendelssohn Academy Leipzig
- ^ at/concert/eventid/1053 Tasten.Lauf - Dorothy Khadem-Missagh
- ^ Musikverein Vienna - Programme
- ^ Wiener Konzerthaus - Ursula Strauss, Dorothy Khadem-Missagh
- ^ Musica Juventutis - Wiener Konzerthaus
- ^ Chopin Festival Gaming
- ^ Dorothy Khadem-Missagh - Ricard Viñes
- ^ "Brilliant concert at Hotel Imperial". Niederösterreichische Nachrichten. 15 December 2015. Archived from the original on 19 September 2017. Retrieved 6 August 2021.
External links[]
- Austrian classical pianists
- Women classical pianists
- 1992 births
- Living people
- People from Mödling