Ammiel Bushakevitz was born in Jerusalem, grew up in South Africa and began piano lessons at the age of four. He studied in Berlin, Leipzig and Paris, with teachers including Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Helmut Deutsch and Alfred Brendel. As one of the last private students of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, he accompanied the singer’s 2011 masterclasses at the Berlin University of the Arts and at the Schwarzenberg Schubertiade.
Since then he has performed as a soloist, chamber musician and song accompanist in the world’s most renowned concert venues and at prestigious festivals worldwide, among them the Salzburg Festival, the Lucerne Festival, the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, the Oxford International Song Festival, the Festival Musica Classica de Montréal, the Shanghai Music Festival and the Melbourne Arts Festival.
His 2025/26 engagements have included performances with Anna Lucia Richter in Copenhagen, with Laetitia Grimaldi at the Heidelberg Spring Festival, with Catriona Morison at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, with Samuel Hasselhorn at the Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin, the Salle Cortot in Paris and at the Schubertiade in Hohenems, and with Konstantin Krimmel in Basel, Girona and Salzburg, at the Wigmore Hall, the cultural centre 92NY, the Prinzregententheater, the Munich Opera Festival and in Schwarzenberg.
His debut album, of works by Schubert, was used as the soundtrack for the Austrian film Gwendolyn. Since then, he has recorded several award-winning solo CDs and song albums. In 2022 he and Laetitia Grimaldi released the song album Ombres. Women Composers of La Belle Époque. He has released the album Mythos: Schubert & Loewe (Alpha Classics label) with Konstantin Krimmel, which won the Edison Classical Award in 2025.
He is working with Samuel Hasselhorn on the project Schubert 200, which by the 200th anniversary of the composer’s death in 2028 will include recordings of five song albums (harmonia mundi) as well as the complete solo piano works (hänssler Classic). Recordings released so far are Die schöne Müllerin (2023, Diapason d’Or), Licht und Schatten (2025) and Hoffnung (April 2026), along with the solo album Fantasies (2025).
Ammiel Bushakevitz is a member of the Société Académique Arts-Sciences-Lettres Paris, an honorary member of the International Association of Wagner Societies and an Edison Fellow of the British Library in London. He is the artistic director of the international arts association Les Voix d’Orphée and gives regular masterclasses for young pianists.
