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Chopin Krakowiak op. 14
Amir Katz Piano
Israel Camerata
Conductor: Itai Talgama
Amir Katz Piano
Israel Camerata
Conductor: Itai Talgama
20 August 2012
Fanfare Magazine, Review by Michael Ullman
Chopin: Ballades and impromptus
>> more
02 February 2012
Press - Schaufenster, Review by Wilhelm Sinkovicz
Amir Katz: Chopin's Nocturnes
>> more
7 November 2011
Süddeutsche Zeitung, Review by Klaus Kalchschmid
Kostbare Kleinodien
Chopin mit Amir Katz in der Allerheiligen-Hofkirche
>> more
10 October 2011
Ruhr Nachrichten, Review by Julia Gass
Geschichten am Klavier
Amir Katz erspielte sich mit Chopin Gala-Auftritt beim nächsten Schubert-Wettbewerb
>> more
30 July 2011
Münchner Merkur, Review by Gabriele Luster
Pavol Breslik also did not turn his back on Liszt.
>> more
28 July 2011
Prinzregententheater, Munich
Liederabend mit dem Tenor Pavol Breslik
>> Tickets
26 May 2011
Miami Herald, Review by Lawrence Budman
Katz's complete Chopin Nocturnes proves a triumph at Miami Piano Festival
>> more
20 April 2011
Rondo Magazin, Review by Tom Persich
>> more
09 March 2011
Fanfare Magazine, Review by Dave Saemann
>> more
10 January 2011
Video:
Amir plays Nocturne Op. 62 No. 1
>> more
20 Dezember 2010
Tel Aviv:
The piano recital in Merkaz Einav was sold out in less than three days!
06 Dezember 2010
Siegener Zeitung, Review by Philipp Weber
Very Delicate
>> more
06 Novbember 2010
Konzerthaus, Berlin
Amir Katz plays Chopin's Nocturne Op. 27 Nr. 2, in the sold-out Konzerthaus, Berlin.
>> more
25 October 2010
Concerti, critique by Jürgen Otten
Supple
>> more
25 September 2010
CD Tip of the Week from Bayern 4 Classical Radio
Frédéric Chopin: Nocturnes
Review by Jürgen Seeger
>> more
14 September 2010
Westfälischen Rundschau, Review by Ursula Oelgemöller
It takes courage to assemble a concert programme for a Sunday morning exclusively made up of “Nocturnes”, that is, “night pieces”, but the gamble paid off.
>> more
12 August 2010
New CD release:
Chopin: 21 Nocturnes
See details / Buy online
26 April 2010
Märkische Allgemeine, Review by Ann Brünink
“[…] the absolute highpoint of this season’s 7th symphony concert.”
>> more
9 March 2010
WAZ, Review by Tom Thelen
Amir Katz is a Marathon Man.
>> more
29 October 2009
Rheinische Post, Review by Martin Schlupp
Solingen: Pianist Amir Katz Gloriously Unpretentious
>> more
28 September 2009
Piano News, Review by Marco Frei
>> more
24 August 2009
Ruhr Nachrichten, Review by Julia Gaß
Songs Without Words, but with Abundant Brilliance
>> more
25 July 2009
CD Tip of the Week from Bayern 4 Classical Radio
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Songs Without Words
Review by Jürgen Seeger
>> more
1 June 2009
Classical Music Magazine Crescendo:
Review by Richard Eckstein
Masculine and Unsentimental
In the current Classical charts, Amir Katz’s newest CD Mendelssohn:
48 Songs Without Words stands stop the Best List in First Place
>> more
14 April 2009
New CD release:
Mendelssohn: 48 Songs Without Words
See details / Buy online
9 April 2009
Seen and Heard International
MusicWeb International's Worldwide Concert
and Opera Reviews, Review by Bettina Mara
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: 48 Songs without Words
>> more
20 January 2009
Süddeutsche Zeitung, Review by Johannes Rubner
“The Big Smile”
A Mendelssohn Evening with Amir Katz in the Gasteig
>> more
14 October 2008
Hellweger Anzeiger Unna, Review by Rainer Ehmanns
“You have to do it with love”
Amir Katz Plays Demanding First Master Concert in the Stadthalle
>> more
13 October 2008
Westfälischen Rundschau Unna, Review by Martina Lode-Gerke
Piano Concert with Addictiveness: Amir Katz Awes
>> more
26 September 2008
Ruhrnachrichten, Review by Prof. Werner Kämmerling
Songs Without Words – A Gamble?
Amir Katz Solves This Problem with Bravura
>> more
25 September 2008
WAZ, Review by Rudolf Franz
A High-End “Audio Book”
Hörde. Amir Katz afforded the visitors to the first piano concert of the new season in the Hörde Bürgersaal a seldom heard listening experience: the complete Songs without Words of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy.
>> more
17 March 2008
Remscheider General-Anzeiger, Review by Thomas Wintgen
Piano Titan Amazes with Sparking Swarms of Trills
[…] The pianistically thankless hybrid between symphony and double piano piece occasionally demands the piano titan who can take it up with the orchestra with crazed paw swipes and sparking swarms of trills in the Maestoso. Katz and Tewinkel approached the first movement very solemnly, the portati of the espressivo insertions short, the appoggiaturas extremely flourished. The verve of the immaculately sparkling touch I perceived with similar enthusiasm as the handling of the fearsome octave trills. Katz revealed a sonorous, epically broad and outstandingly transparent shaping of this movement. The devout D-major Adagio had glorious solo moments and awed through its depth and sense of contemplation. The Rondo was all the more tremendously fast. Much applause and (waltz) encores with unbelievably swift repeated notes following a thoroughly analytic account of the Brahms who was not robbed of his warmth […]
13 March 2008
Solinger Tageblatt, Review by Klaus Günther
An Impressive Pianist
[…] with impressive grandeur the whole panorama unfolded in this composition that Brahms’ contemporaries felt was a revolutionary renewal. This was due in no small part to the soloist of the evening, the Israeli pianist Amir Katz. The variety of expression, certainty, and power with which he shaped the highly challenging piano part were admirable. Thereafter he showed virtuosic brilliance in the Grande valse brillante in E-flat major by Chopin, an encore dedicated to the sponsor Walter Busch. The enthusiastically applauding audience did not let him go without a second encore – this time it was Chopin’s “Revolutionary Etude” […]
21 February 2008, 8 p.m.
Ruhr Nachrichten, Review by Julia Gaß
Tone poetry is the great strength of the 34-year-old
[…] The compact assembly created a unified sound in Brahms’ Piano Concerto. In dark colors and with a gentle, emotive touch, Amir Katz felt his way through his partnership with the orchestra as if playing chamber music. After the second movement, a intimate prayer, he emancipated the piano part with greater force. Tone poetry is the great strength of the 34-year-old, but he grew considerably in virtuosic power and charisma […]
20 February 2008, 8 p.m.
Westfälische Rundschau Dortmund, Review by Sonja Müller-Eisold
He played the Adagio with beguiling expressiveness
[…] Amir Katz played the second part of this challenging concerto (the First Piano Concerto of Brahms) with a crisp touch and glittering brilliance. He can ‘thunder’ through the series of chords and yet always maintain quality of sound, and he masters the keyboard with light fingers as with lyric ardor. He played the Adagio with beguiling expressiveness […]
09/02/2008, 20.00 Uhr
Magee Auditorium, Vancouver
Piano Concert
Amir Katz plays in Vancouver
>> more
26 November 1007
WAZ, Unna, Review by Martina Lode-Gerke
Sparkling Runs and Symphonic Fullness of Sound
With his not always entirely precise but very involved, playfully witty playing, the musician had, at that time, not only persuaded the jury, but had also won the hearts of the audience – during the finale they had already crowned the Israeli their absolute favorite after his brilliant and riveting performance of Beethoven’s First Piano Concerto.
>> more
26 November 2007
Hellweger Anzeiger, Unna, Review by Rainer Ehmanns
Feeling for Harmony
Unna. Only after two encores did the enthusiastic audience let the pianist go following a breathtaking concert on Sunday evening. “You may go ahead and clap!” Amir Katz said after the B-minor Adagio, K. 540, of W. A. Mozart. You could almost cut the silence with a knife after the last sound had faded away. For here appeared a different Mozart: dark, mournful, perplexed, questioning, wan, and full of melancholy that in the Rondo in A minor, K. 511, turned into wistful resignation reflected in the sometimes almost hesitant repetition of the rondo theme.
>> more
19 November 2007
Donaukurier, Review by Jesko Schulze-Reimpell
Between a Hellish Trip and Light Melancholy
Tense concentrate reigns in the concert hall. Almost five and half hours ago the concert had begun, and still the music-hungry audience has not had enough of the drug by the name of Chopin. The guests in the festival hall of the Ingolstadt theater clap and shout “bravo,” not even thinking to leave the room. They want encores.
>> more
15 November 2007
Westfälische Rundschau, Gevelsberg, Review by Dagmar Zschiesche
Third Master Concert Left No Wish Unfulfilled
Amir Katz Awes
In the third Master Concert of the Gevelsberg Konzert Gesellschaft (Concert Society) the excellent piano playing of the young pianist Amir Katz (b. 1973) left a deep impression. Oftentimes the program choices say something about the musician of the evening. Whoever begins a concert like Amir Katz with the sensitive and profound B-minor Adagio of Mozart trusts not only the great soulful power of the work one hundred percent, but also simultaneously trusts the audience’s antenna and of course his own pianistic language.
>> more
13 November 2007
Westfalenpost, Gevelsberg, Review by Christoph Clören
Virtuosically Inclined Romantic
Amir Katz Inspired with Mozart and Chopin in the
Master’s Concert of the Konzertgesellschaft (Concert Society)
Gevelsberg. One of the most promising pianists of the younger generation organized the most recent master’s concert of the Concert Society Gevelsberg: Amir Katz, 2003 winner of the Schubert Piano Competition in Dortmund, presented an evening consisting solely of the works of Mozart and Chopin.
>> more
7 September 2007
Westfalenpost, Kreis Olpe, Review by Tobias Stahl
Mozart Interpreted with Great Feeling
Standing Ovation for Munich Pianist Amir Katz
With Amir Katz the Kunstverein Südsauerland once again presented a great pianist of international repute last Friday. Born in 1973 in Israel and today a resident of Munich, the artist proffered Mozartian pianism in all variations and nuances and took the extremely attentive audience along on a fabulous journey into the great composer’s musical world of thought and emotion.
>> more
Fanfare Magazine, Review by Michael Ullman
Chopin: Ballades and impromptus
>> more
02 February 2012
Press - Schaufenster, Review by Wilhelm Sinkovicz
Amir Katz: Chopin's Nocturnes
>> more
7 November 2011
Süddeutsche Zeitung, Review by Klaus Kalchschmid
Kostbare Kleinodien
Chopin mit Amir Katz in der Allerheiligen-Hofkirche
>> more
10 October 2011
Ruhr Nachrichten, Review by Julia Gass
Geschichten am Klavier
Amir Katz erspielte sich mit Chopin Gala-Auftritt beim nächsten Schubert-Wettbewerb
>> more
30 July 2011
Münchner Merkur, Review by Gabriele Luster
Pavol Breslik also did not turn his back on Liszt.
>> more
28 July 2011
Prinzregententheater, Munich
Liederabend mit dem Tenor Pavol Breslik
>> Tickets
26 May 2011
Miami Herald, Review by Lawrence Budman
Katz's complete Chopin Nocturnes proves a triumph at Miami Piano Festival
>> more
20 April 2011
Rondo Magazin, Review by Tom Persich
>> more
09 March 2011
Fanfare Magazine, Review by Dave Saemann
>> more
10 January 2011
Video:
Amir plays Nocturne Op. 62 No. 1
>> more
20 Dezember 2010
Tel Aviv:
The piano recital in Merkaz Einav was sold out in less than three days!
06 Dezember 2010
Siegener Zeitung, Review by Philipp Weber
Very Delicate
>> more
06 Novbember 2010
Konzerthaus, Berlin
Amir Katz plays Chopin's Nocturne Op. 27 Nr. 2, in the sold-out Konzerthaus, Berlin.
>> more
25 October 2010
Concerti, critique by Jürgen Otten
Supple
>> more
25 September 2010
CD Tip of the Week from Bayern 4 Classical Radio
Frédéric Chopin: Nocturnes
Review by Jürgen Seeger
>> more
14 September 2010
Westfälischen Rundschau, Review by Ursula Oelgemöller
It takes courage to assemble a concert programme for a Sunday morning exclusively made up of “Nocturnes”, that is, “night pieces”, but the gamble paid off.
>> more
12 August 2010
New CD release:
Chopin: 21 Nocturnes
See details / Buy online
26 April 2010
Märkische Allgemeine, Review by Ann Brünink
“[…] the absolute highpoint of this season’s 7th symphony concert.”
>> more
9 March 2010
WAZ, Review by Tom Thelen
Amir Katz is a Marathon Man.
>> more
29 October 2009
Rheinische Post, Review by Martin Schlupp
Solingen: Pianist Amir Katz Gloriously Unpretentious
>> more
28 September 2009
Piano News, Review by Marco Frei
>> more
24 August 2009
Ruhr Nachrichten, Review by Julia Gaß
Songs Without Words, but with Abundant Brilliance
>> more
25 July 2009
CD Tip of the Week from Bayern 4 Classical Radio
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Songs Without Words
Review by Jürgen Seeger
>> more
1 June 2009
Classical Music Magazine Crescendo:
Review by Richard Eckstein
Masculine and Unsentimental
In the current Classical charts, Amir Katz’s newest CD Mendelssohn:
48 Songs Without Words stands stop the Best List in First Place
>> more
14 April 2009
New CD release:
Mendelssohn: 48 Songs Without Words
See details / Buy online
9 April 2009
Seen and Heard International
MusicWeb International's Worldwide Concert
and Opera Reviews, Review by Bettina Mara
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: 48 Songs without Words
>> more
20 January 2009
Süddeutsche Zeitung, Review by Johannes Rubner
“The Big Smile”
A Mendelssohn Evening with Amir Katz in the Gasteig
>> more
14 October 2008
Hellweger Anzeiger Unna, Review by Rainer Ehmanns
“You have to do it with love”
Amir Katz Plays Demanding First Master Concert in the Stadthalle
>> more
13 October 2008
Westfälischen Rundschau Unna, Review by Martina Lode-Gerke
Piano Concert with Addictiveness: Amir Katz Awes
>> more
26 September 2008
Ruhrnachrichten, Review by Prof. Werner Kämmerling
Songs Without Words – A Gamble?
Amir Katz Solves This Problem with Bravura
>> more
25 September 2008
WAZ, Review by Rudolf Franz
A High-End “Audio Book”
Hörde. Amir Katz afforded the visitors to the first piano concert of the new season in the Hörde Bürgersaal a seldom heard listening experience: the complete Songs without Words of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy.
>> more
17 March 2008
Remscheider General-Anzeiger, Review by Thomas Wintgen
Piano Titan Amazes with Sparking Swarms of Trills
[…] The pianistically thankless hybrid between symphony and double piano piece occasionally demands the piano titan who can take it up with the orchestra with crazed paw swipes and sparking swarms of trills in the Maestoso. Katz and Tewinkel approached the first movement very solemnly, the portati of the espressivo insertions short, the appoggiaturas extremely flourished. The verve of the immaculately sparkling touch I perceived with similar enthusiasm as the handling of the fearsome octave trills. Katz revealed a sonorous, epically broad and outstandingly transparent shaping of this movement. The devout D-major Adagio had glorious solo moments and awed through its depth and sense of contemplation. The Rondo was all the more tremendously fast. Much applause and (waltz) encores with unbelievably swift repeated notes following a thoroughly analytic account of the Brahms who was not robbed of his warmth […]
13 March 2008
Solinger Tageblatt, Review by Klaus Günther
An Impressive Pianist
[…] with impressive grandeur the whole panorama unfolded in this composition that Brahms’ contemporaries felt was a revolutionary renewal. This was due in no small part to the soloist of the evening, the Israeli pianist Amir Katz. The variety of expression, certainty, and power with which he shaped the highly challenging piano part were admirable. Thereafter he showed virtuosic brilliance in the Grande valse brillante in E-flat major by Chopin, an encore dedicated to the sponsor Walter Busch. The enthusiastically applauding audience did not let him go without a second encore – this time it was Chopin’s “Revolutionary Etude” […]
21 February 2008, 8 p.m.
Ruhr Nachrichten, Review by Julia Gaß
Tone poetry is the great strength of the 34-year-old
[…] The compact assembly created a unified sound in Brahms’ Piano Concerto. In dark colors and with a gentle, emotive touch, Amir Katz felt his way through his partnership with the orchestra as if playing chamber music. After the second movement, a intimate prayer, he emancipated the piano part with greater force. Tone poetry is the great strength of the 34-year-old, but he grew considerably in virtuosic power and charisma […]
20 February 2008, 8 p.m.
Westfälische Rundschau Dortmund, Review by Sonja Müller-Eisold
He played the Adagio with beguiling expressiveness
[…] Amir Katz played the second part of this challenging concerto (the First Piano Concerto of Brahms) with a crisp touch and glittering brilliance. He can ‘thunder’ through the series of chords and yet always maintain quality of sound, and he masters the keyboard with light fingers as with lyric ardor. He played the Adagio with beguiling expressiveness […]
09/02/2008, 20.00 Uhr
Magee Auditorium, Vancouver
Piano Concert
Amir Katz plays in Vancouver
>> more
26 November 1007
WAZ, Unna, Review by Martina Lode-Gerke
Sparkling Runs and Symphonic Fullness of Sound
With his not always entirely precise but very involved, playfully witty playing, the musician had, at that time, not only persuaded the jury, but had also won the hearts of the audience – during the finale they had already crowned the Israeli their absolute favorite after his brilliant and riveting performance of Beethoven’s First Piano Concerto.
>> more
26 November 2007
Hellweger Anzeiger, Unna, Review by Rainer Ehmanns
Feeling for Harmony
Unna. Only after two encores did the enthusiastic audience let the pianist go following a breathtaking concert on Sunday evening. “You may go ahead and clap!” Amir Katz said after the B-minor Adagio, K. 540, of W. A. Mozart. You could almost cut the silence with a knife after the last sound had faded away. For here appeared a different Mozart: dark, mournful, perplexed, questioning, wan, and full of melancholy that in the Rondo in A minor, K. 511, turned into wistful resignation reflected in the sometimes almost hesitant repetition of the rondo theme.
>> more
19 November 2007
Donaukurier, Review by Jesko Schulze-Reimpell
Between a Hellish Trip and Light Melancholy
Tense concentrate reigns in the concert hall. Almost five and half hours ago the concert had begun, and still the music-hungry audience has not had enough of the drug by the name of Chopin. The guests in the festival hall of the Ingolstadt theater clap and shout “bravo,” not even thinking to leave the room. They want encores.
>> more
15 November 2007
Westfälische Rundschau, Gevelsberg, Review by Dagmar Zschiesche
Third Master Concert Left No Wish Unfulfilled
Amir Katz Awes
In the third Master Concert of the Gevelsberg Konzert Gesellschaft (Concert Society) the excellent piano playing of the young pianist Amir Katz (b. 1973) left a deep impression. Oftentimes the program choices say something about the musician of the evening. Whoever begins a concert like Amir Katz with the sensitive and profound B-minor Adagio of Mozart trusts not only the great soulful power of the work one hundred percent, but also simultaneously trusts the audience’s antenna and of course his own pianistic language.
>> more
13 November 2007
Westfalenpost, Gevelsberg, Review by Christoph Clören
Virtuosically Inclined Romantic
Amir Katz Inspired with Mozart and Chopin in the
Master’s Concert of the Konzertgesellschaft (Concert Society)
Gevelsberg. One of the most promising pianists of the younger generation organized the most recent master’s concert of the Concert Society Gevelsberg: Amir Katz, 2003 winner of the Schubert Piano Competition in Dortmund, presented an evening consisting solely of the works of Mozart and Chopin.
>> more
7 September 2007
Westfalenpost, Kreis Olpe, Review by Tobias Stahl
Mozart Interpreted with Great Feeling
Standing Ovation for Munich Pianist Amir Katz
With Amir Katz the Kunstverein Südsauerland once again presented a great pianist of international repute last Friday. Born in 1973 in Israel and today a resident of Munich, the artist proffered Mozartian pianism in all variations and nuances and took the extremely attentive audience along on a fabulous journey into the great composer’s musical world of thought and emotion.
>> more
