Nina Tichman

“Awsome”* and “thrilling”** are two of the adjectives used to describe Nina Tichman´s performances of Claude Debussy. In New York City, Frankfurt and other cities in Europe and the United States she held audiences spellbound with her traversal of the complete works in three evenings and CDs with this repertoire have been called "because of her exquisite touch - the most beautiful recording of the complete works".*** Acclaimed as "one of the leading pianists of her generation"****, she is at home in repertoire ranging from Frescobaldi to composers writing today, many of whom have entrusted her with world premieres of their compositions.  Her discography includes music by Copland (Complete Works for Piano), Chopin, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Penderecki, Bartok and Reger.

American born, Nina Tichman has been based in Europe since winning the prestigious “Busoni” Competition. Other awards include the Mendelssohn Prize of Berlin, First Prize of the Casagrande Competition in Italy and the Prize of the Organization of American States. In 2001 she founded the Xyrion Trio with Ida Bieler and Maria Kliegel, an ensemble that has been prised for its “vital, emotional and dramatic musicmaking”***** and is currently recording the complete Beethoven Piano Trios.

Nina Tichman is a graduate of The Juilliard School, where she was awarded the Eduard-Steuermann-Prize for outstanding musical achievement.  In 1993 she was appointed Professor of Piano at the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne and she has led master classes at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, as well as at Amherst College, Princeton University and IKIF in New York.

* New York Times
** idem
*** Darmstädter Echo
**** Neue Musik Zeitung
***** Saale-Zeitung