Sander
SITTIG
PIANIST
About
‘Moonlit lyricism from the keyboard’ and ‘a sublime smoothness of sound’.
This is how press and audiences across the globe praise Sander Sittig for his poetic and individual performances that have made him a favorite guest on international stages as a soloist and collaborator. He performs regularly with great violinists like Shlomo Mintz, Pavel Berman, and Liza Ferschtman. These concerts have taken him to major concert halls across all European countries as well as to Japan, China, Israel, and North and South America.
As a soloist he has received rave reviews for his CD with works by Mozart, his performances with orchestras in the Netherlands, Spain and the Czech Republic, and his recitals, which are often accompanied by inventive spoken and visual introductions.
Sander studied with famed pianist and professor Jan Wijn at the Amsterdam Conservatory. During these years, he made his debuts at the famous Amsterdam Concertgebouw and De Doelen Concert Hall in Rotterdam, receiving praise by the national press for his renditions of concertos by Beethoven and Chopin. Sander is a prizewinner of international piano competitions in the USA, Italy, France, and the Netherlands.
He is a regular guest at festivals in Italy, Israel, Austria and the Netherlands and performs frequently for radio and television. As a pedagogue, he teaches at the Codarts Conservatory of music in his native city Rotterdam and the online courses of iClassical Academy.