Biography
Canadian pianist Jan Lisiecki looks back on a career spanning a decade and a half on the world’s greatest stages. He works closely with many of the foremost conductors and orchestras of our time, performing more than a hundred concerts each year.
In the 2025–26 season, he returns to the Rotterdam Philharmonic, Vienna Symphony, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Warsaw Philharmonic, Gulbenkian Orchestra, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, as well as the San Francisco Symphony and Houston Symphony.
In August 2025, he concludes the renowned Seoul International Music Festival at the Seoul Arts Center in South Korea with a Beethoven concerto performance and a solo recital featuring his highly acclaimed Preludes program, recently released by Deutsche Grammophon. A further 30 piano recitals take him across Europe and North America, including appearances at the Philharmonie Berlin, Vienna Konzerthaus, Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona, Koerner Hall in Toronto, and the National Arts Centre in Ottawa.
Continuing his collaboration with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, which he led from the piano on a tour of Beethoven cycles in the previous season, he performs another Beethoven cycle at the Enescu and Merano festivals.
Recent return invitations include the New York Philharmonic, The Cleveland Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, and Staatskapelle Dresden. He made his debut with the Berlin Philharmonic in spring 2024. Lisiecki is a regular guest at major summer festivals across Europe and North America, has performed at the Salzburg Festival, and recently made his third appearance at the BBC Proms. His previous recital program was presented in more than 50 cities around the world.
Jan Lisiecki signed an exclusive recording contract with Deutsche Grammophon at the age of 15. Since then, he has recorded nine albums, earning distinctions including the JUNO Award, ECHO Klassik, Gramophone Critics’ Choice, Diapason d’Or, and Edison Klassiek.
At 18, he received both the Leonard Bernstein Award and Gramophone’s Young Artist Award, becoming the youngest-ever recipient of the latter. He was named UNICEF Ambassador to Canada in 2012.
“A musician of unusual refinement and imagination”
Boston Globe
“a gift too rare to be squandered”
Gramophone Magazine
“pristine, lyrical and intelligent”
The New York Times
“perhaps the most ‘complete’ pianist of his age”
BBC Music Magazine