Season 2025/26
Eloïse Bella Kohn, Itamar Carmeli
Building Bridges – András Schiff presents young pianists

Even after graduating from a prestigious conservatory, it is not easy for young musicians to position themselves successfully in the international music market – because regardless of talent and technical excellence, they often lack performance practice and access to important networks. This is where Sir András Schiff’s programme Building Bridges comes in, with which he has been providing targeted and sustainable support for young pianists since 2014.

Each season, András Schiff, who himself built his international acclaimed career without the springboard of a major competition win, selects three gifted pianists with unique musical personalities and, in cooperation with conc.arts berlin, arranges recitals for them at concert venues and festivals throughout Europe. As honorary artistic director, András Schiff selects the participants and develops the repertoire together with them. Implementation and organisation are carried out by conc.arts berlin gUG.

With Building Bridges, Sir András Schiff has established a unique model for the sustainable promotion of young musicians, enabling young pianists to build their own bridges to the professional music world.

With the kind support of the Melinda Esterházy de Galantha Foundation, C.Bechstein and the Ernst-Herbert und Christiane Pfleiderer Stiftung.

With your donation, you will ensure that young artists in the sensitive early stages of their careers are helped to shape the demanding path to a successful career with care and professional guidance.
Together with Sir András Schiff, you build stable bridges! As the organisational and administrative platform of the programme, the non-profit conc.arts berlin gUG can issue donation receipts upon request. Please transfer your donation to the following account with the reference “Donation Building Bridges”:

conc.arts berlin gUG (haftungsbeschränkt)
Bank account: Commerzbank Berlin
IBAN: DE49 1004 0000 0276 6699 00
BIC/SWIFT: COBADEFFXXX

Find more information about the pianists of the current and following seasons, the concert dates and the idea at Building-Bridges-website.