Marian Migdal

German classical pianist and and professor at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater, born November 11, 1948 in Legnica, Poland, died April 2, 2015 in Bochum, Germany.

After his family emigrated from Poland in 1964, Marian Migdal studied in Stockholm at the Kungliga Musikhögskolan Edsberg Slott with Hans Leygraf and Sergiu Celibidache until 1966. From 1967 he continued his piano studies with Bruno Seidlhofer at the Cologne University of Music and Dance, which he completed with the concert exam. In the USA, further years of artistic training followed with Ania Dorfman at the Juilliard School of Music in New York, where he received the Loeb Award as the highest honor for outstanding piano playing. In 1971 Migdal won the International Piano Competition of the Broadcasting Corporations (ARD) in Munich, and two years later the International Schumann Competition in New York. Since then, his concert tours have taken him through the USA, Europe and Asia.

On his tours, Migdal performed in the most important music metropolises and gave concerts with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra London, the Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Stockholm Philharmonic, the Athens State Orchestra, the Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra etc. under the direction of well-known conductors such as Yuri Ahronovitch, Moshe Atzmon, James Conlon, Dean Dixon, Charles Dutoit, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Okko Kamu, Kazimierz Kord, James Loughran, Zdeněk Mácal, Jerzy Maksymiuk, Uri Segal, Walter Weller, Carlo Zecci and others.

In addition to many radio and television recordings, Migdal has recorded numerous records, especially for EMI/ELECTROLA and RCA. They contain works by Beethoven, Berwald, Brahms, Chopin, Debussy, Galuppi, Grieg, Haydn, Liszt, Mozart, Schubert, Schumann, Strauss, Tchaikovsky and Wieniawski. He received the Swedish Record Prize for his recording of Franz Berwald's piano concerto with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra London. His 2014 chamber music recording of violin sonatas by Beethoven, Debussy and Strauss (together with his daughter, violinist Liv Migdal) also received several international awards.