Biografie Tiffany Butt, Klavier

Canadian pianist Tiffany Butt has appeared as soloist, Lieder recitalist and chamber musician across three continents. At the Nova Scotian premiere of Paul Schoenfield’s Café Music, the Halifax ChronicleHerald wrote that she “captured the audience with her enthusiasm, brilliance, and charm.”

Recently, the Rheinland Pfalz enthused, “as where was necessary, Tiffany Butt channeled energy and drama, yet never losing sight of exactness and clarity.” Tiffany has appeared as soloist with numerous orchestras across Canada and Europe, and as chamber and solo recitalist throughout Canada, the United States, Germany, France, England, Switzerland, Italy, Finland, Belgium, Austria, Serbia, and the Netherlands. Performing highlights include Prokofiev’s Third Concerto with the Basel Symphony Orchestra, Bartok’s Concerto for Two Pianos, Percussion, and Orchestra under Marko Letonja, and Shostakovich First Concerto with the Rotterdam Kammerorkest under Conrad van Alphen.

Tiffany has concertised at such prestigious venues as the Gulbenkian in Lisbon, De Doelen in Rotterdam, the Berliner Konzerthaus, the Helsinki Music Centre, and appeared on reinvitation with the Rotterdam Kammerorkest, performing Chopin’s First Piano Concerto. Tiffany started piano and violin from an early age and received the Associate of The Royal Conservatory of Music (ARCT) piano diploma at age 13. Featured as a young artist at summer festivals such as Schleswig-Hölstein, Lenk, Kuhmo, Salzburg, Banff, Scotiafest, Aria, and Kneisel Hall, she has also collaborated with violinists Midori, Raphael Oleg, Gordan Nikolic, cellist Rafael Rosenfeld, clarinettist Julian Milkis, and participated in masterclasses with Peter Schreier, Margreet Honig, Yvonne Naef, Rudolf Jansen, Graham Johnson, Seymour Lipkin, Lorand Fenyves, Eduard Brunner, Aquiles delle Vigne, Emanuel Ax, Robert McDonald, as well as the Juilliard, Hagen, and Vermeer quartets, the Canadian Brass, and many others. Tiffany has been a recipient of the prestigious W.O. Forsythe Prize (Canada), and has been awarded grants from the Vancouver Arts Council, the Elysium Foundation (Germany), and was named “Best Accompanist” by the LiedForum Basel.

She has recorded for and been broadcast by Radio Suisse Romande, Swiss Radio DRS, Radio Holland Netherlands, Yle Finnish Broadcasting Company and recently released the CD “Couleur” with Argentinian flutist Maria Cecilia Muñoz for Ars Produktion Deutschland, which was featured by the Bayerischer Rundfunk. Also a jazz and musical theatre enthusiast, she can most recently be heard on the album “Stardust” with the chanteuse Nina Bradlin.

From the University of Toronto, Tiffany also holds an Honours Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science and Human Biology. With a lifelong passion for dance, Tiffany is currently a proud faculty member of the Tanz-Akademie at the Zürich University for the Arts in Switzerland.

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