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Haefliger is recognised as a superb recitalist. He made his New York recital debut in 1988 and has since performed regularly at the Lucerne and Edinburgh Festivals, Vienna Konzerthaus and Wigmore Hall. He has formed several key partnerships, most recently with violinist Hilary Hahn, with whom he has performed Beethoven and Brahms sonatas in London, Vienna, Tokyo, Seoul and Chicago. In 2024 Andreas and his wife the distinguished flautist Marina Piccinini inaugurated their new Zauberklang Festival, inviting special guests including Hilary Hahn and Ian Bostridge to perform in intimate surroundings high in the Swiss Alps.
Haefliger’s reputation as a uniquely insightful interpreter of Beethoven has been built over twenty years of performing and recording his “Perspectives” series first on Avie (6 discs) and now on BIS, performing the complete solo works of Beethoven alongside works by other composers from Mozart to Ligeti. In 2020, locked down in the Swiss Alps, he filmed Beethoven’s monumental op.106 Hammerklavier sonata alongside interviews with the alpinist Dani Arnold in the gorgeous mountain scenery. In Autumn 2021 BIS (with whom Haefliger has an exclusive contract) released his recording of the Beethoven op.31 sonatas, and in Autumn 2022 he records the Pathetique and op.10 sonatas.
In 2019 BIS released Haefliger’s first ever concerto disc – the world premiere recording of Dieter Ammann’s Gran Toccata with Susanna Malkki and the Helsinki Philharmonic, coupled with Bartok and Ravel concerti. Haefliger gave the first live performance of the Ammann at the BBC Proms in 2019 with the BBC Symphony and Sakari Oramo, closely followed by the North American premiere with the Boston Symphony and Susanna Malkki. It was co-commissioned for Haefliger by Boston together with the Munich Philharmonic, Lucerne Festival, Taipei Symphony and Wiener Konzerthaus, where he gave the much-postponed Austrian premiere in January 2024 with the Wiener Symphoniker and Malkki. In 2025 he takes the Ammann to the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie.
Haefliger began his career with Sony Classical recording Mozart sonatas followed by Schumann Davidsbündlertanze and Fantasiestücke, Schubert Impromptus, and music by Sofia Gubaidulina. Later he recorded for Decca with the Takács Quartet and also Matthias Goerne, with whom he won the Preis Der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik for Schubert’s Goethe Songs; he subsequently recorded a recital disc for BIS with Marina Piccinini.
Andreas Haefliger is represented by Intermusica.
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