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 Allegro Vivo 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 Jan Jiracek von Arnim, 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 MuTh, the International Festival "Allegro Vivo", the Mosel Music Festival, 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 International Telekom Beethoven Competition Bonn, the International Piano Competition "Ricard Viñes"[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.

References

  1. ↑ Vahid Khadem-Missagh on khadem-missagh.com
  2. ↑ "Interview with pianist Dorothy Khadem-Missagh". Retrieved 6 August 2021.
  3. ↑ Scholars of the Int. Mendelssohn Academy Leipzig
  4. ↑ at/concert/eventid/1053 Tasten.Lauf - Dorothy Khadem-Missagh
  5. ↑ Musikverein Vienna - Programme
  6. ↑ Wiener Konzerthaus - Ursula Strauss, Dorothy Khadem-Missagh
  7. ↑ Musica Juventutis - Wiener Konzerthaus
  8. ↑ Chopin Festival Gaming
  9. ↑ Dorothy Khadem-Missagh - Ricard Viñes
  10. ↑ "Brilliant concert at Hotel Imperial". Niederösterreichische Nachrichten. 15 December 2015. Archived from the original on 19 September 2017. Retrieved 6 August 2021.
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