Biography

Schub came to New York City

New York City

New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

 with his family, when he was eight months old. He began his piano studies with his mother when he was four, and later continued his work with Jascha Zayde

Jascha Zayde

Jascha Zayde was an American pianist, composer, and conductor. From the 1930's, he was the first staff musician hired by WQXR. From 1954, he was the staff keyboard player of the New York City Ballet....

. He attended Princeton University

Princeton University

Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....

, and then transferred to the Curtis Institute of Music

Curtis Institute of Music

The Curtis Institute of Music is a conservatory in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that offers courses of study leading to a performance Diploma, Bachelor of Music, Master of Music in Opera, and Professional Studies Certificate in Opera. According to statistics compiled by U.S...

, where he studied with Rudolf Serkin

Rudolf Serkin

Rudolf Serkin , was a Bohemian-born pianist.-Life and early career:Serkin was born in Eger, Bohemia, Austro-Hungarian Empire to a Russian-Jewish family....

, from 1970 to 1973. He judged the 1997 Hilton Head Competition.

He has taught at the Manhattan School of Music

Manhattan School of Music

The Manhattan School of Music is a major music conservatory located on the Upper West Side of New York City. The school offers degrees on the bachelors, masters, and doctoral levels in the areas of classical and jazz performance and composition...

, since 2006.

Prizes

In 1974 Schub took first prize at the Naumburg Competition

Walter W. Naumburg Foundation

The Walter W. Naumburg Foundation sponsors competitions and provides awards for young classical musicians in North America. It was founded in 1925 by Walter Wehle Naumburg, a wealthy amateur cellist and son of noted New York music patron and philanthropist Elkan Naumburg. Elkan Naumburg, owner of...

. In 1977 he received the Avery Fisher Prize

Avery Fisher Prize

The Avery Fisher Prize is an award given to American musicians for outstanding achievement in classical music. Founded by philanthropist Avery Fisher in 1974, it is regarded as one of the most significant awards for American instrumentalists. The award is decided by members of the Avery Fisher...

. In 1981 he won the Gold medal at the Van Cliburn International Competition 

Concert career

His New York debut at Alice Tully Hall

Alice Tully Hall

Alice Tully Hall is a concert hall at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City. It is named for Alice Tully, a New York performer and philanthropist whose donations assisted in the construction of the hall...

 on May 13, 1974, was reviewed by the New York Times as an "impressive debut". In 1979, he became the pianist for the New York Chamber Music Society.
Schub appears frequently as guest artist with Mostly Mozart

Mostly Mozart

The Mostly Mozart Festival is a summer series of concerts held at Lincoln Center in New York City. Currently, the artistic director is Jane Moss while the music director is Louis Langrée. In 2006, it celebrated its 40th anniversary and the 250th anniversary of its namesake Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's...

, Tanglewood

Tanglewood Music Festival

The Tanglewood Music Festival is a music festival held every summer on the Tanglewood estate in Lenox, Massachusetts in the Berkshire Hills in western Massachusetts....

, Ravinia

Ravinia Park

Ravinia Festival is the oldest outdoor music festival in the United States, with a series of outdoor concerts and performances held every summer from June to September. It has been the summer home of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra since 1936...

, and Blossom

Blossom Festival

The Blossom Festival is a summer music festival of orchestral music located at the Blossom Music Center in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. The festival was originally created to provide a summer concert vehicle for the Cleveland Orchestra and the Blossom Music Center was specifically built to host the festival...

 festivals. He has performed with major orchestras, including the Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Dallas, Detroit, St. Louis and Cleveland and Philadelphia symphony orchestras and the Los Angeles and New York philharmonics and the Royal Concertgebouw. He is an artist of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center is an American organization dedicated to the performance and promotion of chamber music. Its website states that it is "the nation’s premier repertory company for chamber music."...

. Since 1997, he has been music director of the Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Music Series.

He has performed on Saint Paul Sunday

Saint Paul Sunday

Saint Paul Sunday is a Peabody Award-winning weekly classical music radio program, hosted by Bill McGlaughlin. It is America's most widely listened to weekly classical music program produced by public radio, and airs on approximately 200 stations nationwide. Programs since 1997 are also available...

, and Performance Today

Performance Today

Performance Today is a Peabody Award-winning classical music radio show, currently hosted by Fred Child. It is the most listened-to daily classical music radio program in the United States, with 1.2 million listeners on 237 stations...

.

Most recently, on May 19, 2006, he gave the world premier performance of Bright Sheng

Bright Sheng

Bright Sheng is a Chinese-American composer, conductor, and pianist. He has lived in the United States since 1982 and is on faculty at the University of Michigan. In 1999, the White House commissioned Sheng to compose a piece to honor the Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji at a state dinner hosted by...

's "Three Fantasies for Violin and Piano," commissioned by the McKim Fund in the Library of Congress.

Recordings

• Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 3 & 23 ("Appassionata"), Vox (Classical), ASIN: B00008FZYM (November 4, 1992)
• Bright Sheng: 3 Fantasies: No. 3. Kazakhstan Love Song, Naxos, ASIN: B001P2C34I, January 27, 2009
• Van Cliburn Competition 1981, Video Artists Int'l, ASIN: B00000I7H7, November 30, 1999
• Asia: Concerto For Piano, Koch Int'l Classics, ASIN: B000001SJK, November 18, 1997
• A Mozart Celebration: Virginia Arts Festival, Musical Heritage Society, ASIN: B000KLVS50
• Stravinsky: Suite Italienne/Duo Concertant/Divertimento, Sony, ASIN: B0000026EE, October 25, 1990
• Brahms: Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24, Liszt: Grande Etudes de Paganini (No. 2 in E-flat and No. 6 in A minor), Dante Sonata, Vox Cum Laude, ASIN: B001OF7NOG,
• The American Album, Rca Victor Red Seal, Catalog #68114
• Rorem: Winter Pages, Bright Music, New World Records, Catalog #80416

MP3 Downloads

• Bright Sheng: 3 Fantasies: No. 1. Dreams Song
• Bright Sheng: 3 Fantasies: No. 2. Tibetan Air

DVD

• Sixth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition - Andre-Michel Schub, Panayis Lyras, Santiago Rodriguez, HARMONIA MUNDI, Part#4504