Pianist
Who would have thought that after the Corona pandemic, the next catastrophe would be ahead of us. The terrible events in Ukraine is moving all of us. On 4 April, I will play a charity concert at the Beethoven Haus in Bonn for the people of Ukraine, which was made possible thanks to the generous help of many well-known supporters (Rotary Club, International Telekom Beethoven Competition, Beethoven Haus Bonn). Please support us, too!
Unfortunately, the total of five live concerts with audience in Graz’ prestigious Musikverein Hall had to be cancelled at the last minute due to COVID-19. Nevertheless, there will be a chance to hear Gershwin’s masterpiece as a live recording. There will be more information about this soon.
Update: Even the video production had to be cancelled. But yet there will be another opportunity to hear the concert in the next season 2023.
Via “Concerts” you will find the schedule for early 2022. I would like to highlight the concert series with Gershwin’s Rhapdsody in Blue at the Musikverein Graz, the debut at the Royal Albert Hall in London as well as the concert series “Best of NRW” in Germany.
See you soon and I look forward to seeing and hearing you again musically!
I wish everyone of you a Happy New Year 2022, good health, success and musical greetings!
Stay tuned – new concert dates for 2022 will soon be released.
The International Beethoven Competition in Vienna is one of the most important piano competitions worldwide. After a total of three rounds of the competition, the three finalists were chosen to perform one of the five Beethoven piano concertos with orchestra in the Golden Hall of the Vienna Musikverein on 21 October 2021. Being awarded the 2nd prize is not only a fantastic result, but also a great honour for a pianist’s career.
In 2021, the German Piano Award will be awarded again and I am pleased to have been nominated for it. This year’s prize will be awarded at the Alte Oper Frankfurt in Germany.
More information here!
After the last lockdown it suddenly started – what a joy it was to be able to perform in front of a live audience again! Before the summer slowly comes to an end, which was filled with concert tours through France, Italy, Slovenia, Germany, Austria and the Ukraine, the last festivals in Norway and the ar|:s:|onore Festival in Graz are still to come.
A lot of people have been waiting for live concerts and finally it will happen. On 21 & 22 May, I will be playing in my beautiful home town of Graz in the green heart of Austria. The styriarte presents its first live concerts after the worldwide pandemic and opens the doors of the “Stefaniensaal” of the Congress Graz. I’m looking forward to performing live again.
As part of the internationally renowned music festival “Heidelberger Frühling”, a live video production in a class of its own was created. Together with cellist Julia Hagen, the two violinists Cosima Soulez-Larivière and Maria Wehrmeyer and clarinettist Han Kim, classical works by Brahms, Schumann and Debussy as well as the world premiere by contemporary Korean composer Donghoon Shin called “My Shadow” are on the program. Under the direction of pianist Markus Becker, a great concert evening was created, which can be experienced live HERE on April 16, 2021 at 8pm and will be available for watching on-demand.
For known reasons there are no concerts yet. However, the time is not quiet, but many good projects are happening. Soon more may be revealed about this.
There are plenty of concert dates for 2021, but I would like to wait with the publication, because at the moment many things are changing in a short time. However, we can make a note of the Heidelberger Frühling in Germany (with Igor Levit, Markus Becker and others), the concerts with recreation in the Graz Congress and the finale of the “Premio Antonio Mormone” in the magnificent Italian city of Milan.
In the meantime, I look forward to you listening to the album “Concert apéritif du Piano“. Let’s stick together and look forward to beautiful musical moments in the near future!