Anne Shih violin master class at the Liszt Academy
Dates & venue:
Thursday 8 December 2022, 10.00–17.00, Main Building, Room X
Friday 9 December 2022, 9.00–16.00, Main Building, Room X
Participation and applicaton:
Active participants:
Only Liszt Academy students (BA, MA, non-degree, erasmus, guest students, exceptional young talents, Doctoral School) may apply. You can apply by filling out the online form below (erasmus and guest students students! please write the name of your training after your name and select your training level).
Application deadline: 1 December 2022, Midnight
The list of active participants will be posted on the website of the Liszt Academy a few days before the master class.
Passive participants:
Only Liszt Academy and Bartók Conservatoire teachers and students may attend the master class as passive participants.
Pre-registration is required fot Bartók Conservatoire teachers and students on the application form below. Upon request, we can issue a certificate of participation.
Application deadline: 1 December 2022, Midnight
Anne Shih was born in Edmonton, Alberta as the eldest of three sisters who all became internationally renowned classical musicians. Anne began formal violin lessons at age 7. Equally prodigious as a pianist, she won prizes at many of the important national competitions, on both instruments.
Mentored by the legendary Josef Gingold at Indiana University from 1986-91, Anne Shih became Gingold’s last teaching assistant and received her BM and MM. She has also worked with, assisted and performed with Denes Zsigmondy in Seattle, USA as well as in Germany, Italy, Hungary and Austria.
Anne’s solo and chamber music performances as a violinist, violist and pianist have taken her to concert halls across North America, Europe and Asia, and to festivals internationally.
Highly sought after as a pedagogue, Anne Shih lectures in numerous masterclasses throughout North America, Europe and Asia, and is frequently asked internationally for consultation online. Shih was a professor of violin since the age of 22 at Oberlin Conservatory in US, later Lawrence Univesity-College, and in 1997, youngest tenured full time Professor at the Hochschule für Musik in Mainz.
Shih is Artistic Director of the Mainzer Virtuosi, a young ensemble which has recorded three CDs, and performed in major halls throughout Europe.
In 2003, Shih co-founded Norfolk Concerts, serving as Artistic Director from 2003 - 2013, actively promoting music in schools in the Norfolk area. From 2010, she took over as Artistic Director of the Casalmaggiore International Festival, largely helping to broaden the Festival’s horizons on an international scale. In 2018, she founded a second festival, Musiktage am Rhein in Germany working with the LMAK Rheinland-Pfalz, focusing on mentorship, education and cultural exchange between east and west.
She has been Vice-Chairman of the Society for Friendship between China and Germany since 2016.
Anne Shih plays on a Giuseppe filius Andrae Guarnerius of 1711.