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Foyerkonzert: Mozarts Leben – Ein Vortrag mit Musik

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Roman Salyutov

Pianist und Dirigent Roman Salyutov referiert mit launigen Texten und musikalischen Beispielen am Flügel über W.A. Mozart. Musikinteressierte können auf diese Weise Einblicke in das Leben eines der wichtigsten Komponisten der Klassik erhalten.

Foyerkonzert: Du bist wie eine Blume

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Anlässlich des Weltfrauentags am 8. März ist die Liedklasse der Hochschule für Musik Mainz mit einem Programm „Du bist wie eine Blume“, das inhaltlich ganz den Damen dieser Welt gewidmet ist, zu Gast in den Foyerkonzerten der Internationalen Musikakademie Sankt Goar im Glasfoyer der Rheinfelshalle.

Auf dem Programm stehen Werke u.a. von Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt, Hugo Wolf und Sergej Rachmaninoff.

PIANO – Prof. Heribert Koch (Münster University of Music)

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Teacher:

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Heribert Koch initially received his training at the Universities of Music in Cologne and Karlsruhe and attended master classes with renowned musicians, among others with Tatjana Nikolajewa and Mieczyslaw Horszowski. Finally, the encounter with Peter Feuchtwanger, with whom he continued his studies in London, became particularly formative and Heribert Koch subsequently assisted him on his master classes.

The international Piano Journal, which recently published an extensive portrait of him, describes him as „one of the most inspiring and creative pianist-teachers working in Europe today“.

Beyond concert programmes with major works from the standard repertoire, he frequently performs unfamiliar compositions, often presenting them in the form of lecture recitals. In this context he also acts as an editor. He received particular recognition for his profound research about César Franck, whose early piano works he made accessible to musicologists and performing musicians in well-respected first editions (publisher Dohr, Cologne).

Heribert Koch is a member of the Presidium of the EPTA Germany (European Piano Teachers Association) and served as European President of the Association in the seasons 2012/13 and 2019/20. He regularly acts as a juror of renowned competitions, gives master classes and is a sought-after speaker at international conferences.

Internationally successful pianists emerged from his piano class at the Münster University of Music, who were able to achieve numerous awards and can be heard in some of the most renowned concert venues worldwide.

Foyerkonzert: Posaune erschalle!

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Programm:​​

​​​​Gottfried Reich (1667- 1734)
Turmsonate
Adagio
Allegro
Adagio
Andante

​​​Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710- 1736)

Sonate in c-Moll
Allegro stregato
Ninetta
Marcie de pifferai

Carrickfergus​
(traditionelles irisches Volkslied)

Alexandre Guilmant (1837- 1911)
Morceau Symphonic​​, Op. 88 (1902)

​​​Axel Jörgensen (1881-1947)
Romance, Op. 21

Pro Musica I – Meisterkurs-Abschlusskonzert Klavier

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In diesem Jahr stellen wir alle Abschlusskonzerte der verschiedenen Meisterkurse mit Dozentinnen und Dozenten und jungen Künstlerinnen und Künstlern aus aller Welt unter den Titel: Pro Musica

Denn diese Aspirantinnen und Aspiranten leben und brennen für die Musik und widmen ihr sich ein paar Tage im inspirierenden Umfeld der Stadt Sankt Goar, zwischen den Burgen Katz und Maus, zu Füßen der Burg Rheinfels, unweit der Loreley, um von einem Meister oder einer Meisterin des Fachs neue Impulse vermitteln zu lassen.

Den Anfang dieses Jahr macht wieder der Pianist und Pädagoge Hardy Rittner, seines Zeichens Professor an der Staatlichen Hochschule für Musik in Freiburg im Breisgau. Denn Herr Rittner ist ein Exeget im Feld der historischen Aufführungspraxis der Klaviermusik, die der Klassik und der Romantik entspringt.

Die besonderen Instrumente aus der Zeit des Übergangs vom 19. auf das 20. Jahrhundert, die der Internationalen Musikakademie Sankt Goar dafür zu Verfügung stehen, ermöglichen es den jungen Musikerinnen und Musikern in die pianistische Klangwelt der Romantik eintauchen zu können.

PIANO – Prof. Klaus Sticken (Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna)

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Teacher:

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Klaus Sticken is a versatile and distinctive pianist with over 25 years of concert experience. He performs in such venues as the Tonhalle Zurich, the Great Hall of the Tchaikovsky Conservatoire in Moscow, the Philharmonie in Kiev, the Megaron in Athens, the Konzerthaus in Berlin and the Musikhalle in Hamburg. His successes in the Concours Clara Haskil in Vevey, the Grand Prix Maria Callas in Athens and the Hamamatsu International Piano Competition in Japan led, amongst other engagements, to concerts with the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre de Chambre Lausanne, the Ukraine State Orchestra and the Berlin Symphonic and Moscow Symphonic Orchestras. He undertakes concert tours throughout Europe and in the Far East.

His creative engagement with piano music is well displayed in the theme-based recitals for various radio stations, the Deutschlandradio, Radio Suisse Romande and Westdeutsche, Mitteldeutsche and Hessische Rundfunk and others. Sticken also works with experimentally minded partners such as the Kuss Quartet or the author and pianist Cord Garben and tries out new methods of presenting music and text with the poet Oskar Ansull. Recordings for the CD label Thorofon and many radio productions of seldom heard masterpieces by Clementi, Reubke, Strauss, Martin, Honegger, Korngold and Rota provide evidence of the wide-ranging nature of his repertoire.

Through his teachers Vladimir Krainev, Vitaly Margulis, Gyorgy Sebok and Alfred Brendel Klaus Sticken has become familiar with very varied approaches to music. Besides his concert activity serves as a professor of piano at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna.

PIANO – Prof. Andreas Weber (University Mozarteum Salzburg)

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Andreas Weber began his pianistic education at the Music University of Cologne with Prof. Karin Merle and continued with Prof. Hans Leygraf at the University of Music in Salzburg.

His gives concerts as a soloist and as chamber musician in Europe and Asia, i.a. with the Trio Cartellieri and with the Violinist Albert Fischer.

Television recordings in Austria, Korea and China.

He holds many Masterclasses in Korea, China, Germany and Belgium and is member of jury in national and international piano competitions in Germany, Austria, China and Korea.

He made CD recordings with the Cellist Hanna Spielbüchler (Brahms, Schubert and Franck) as well with the Violinist Albert Fischer (Mozart, Brahms, Schubert) and with the Trio Cartellieri (Turina, Takacs, Piazzolla).

Since 2002 Andreas Weber is professor for piano at the University Mozarteum and since 2005 he is the head of the Leopold-Mozart-Institut for highly talented young students and is promoting young talents at national and international level.

Since 2009 he is professor at the International Summer Academy of Mozarteum.

Many of his students are prize winners of international piano competitions.

 

PIANO – Prof. Konrad Engel (Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin)

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Teacher:

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Born in the region of Frankfurt/Main, Konrad Maria Engel grew up in a mainly scientifically oriented family. However it came clear already during his early childhood that music would be his vocation some day. More than a dozen scholarships, awards and many prizes at international competitions reinforced that impression over the years, most importantly to mention the German National Music Competition, Bach-Competition Leipzig and a first prize at the international Chopin-Competition Hanover.

His concert career – now almost 40 years of stage experience – took him all over the northern hemisphere, across Europe, Asia and the US. As a soloist he performed with numerous renowned orchestras and at several international festivals. His repertoire did never exclude any style or period and included all kinds of keyboards from cembalo to fortepiano and various historic grand pianos.

Since his younger days Konrad Engel is also very much dedicated to chamber music and Kunstlied. Just to mention a few long term highlights, there was the applauded „Trio Corrado” together with Konradin Seitzer (Violin) and Konrad Haesler (Cello) as well as various performances together with Leonid Gorokhov, Markus Becker, Mareike Morr, Sharon Kam and many other renowned partners. Beyond that he was member of bigger ensembles as well as conducting two chamber orchestras for several years.

Over the last two decades he discovered his great passion for teaching and rather focused his career on education since several years. After getting first experiences in teaching at the municipal music school Hanover, a lectureship at the University for Arts Bremen in 2011 was an important leap.

From 2012 to 2018 he held a substitutional professorship at Hanover Music University, where he first got in touch with the education of highly talented young students. In 2017 he got a full professorship at the University „Hanns Eisler“ Berlin and the honour to become head of piano department at the „Musikgymnasium C.P.E. Bach“ in addition.

By now amongst his students are many prizewinners at international competitions such as Sendai/Japan, Aarhus/Denmark, Mendelssohn/Berlin, Schumann/Zwickau, Liszt/Weimar etc.

He started his own academic studies in music education at Hannover Music University and

finished his third Diploma with the „Konzertexamen“ in 2006 after being a student of Karl-Heinz Kämmerling for many years. His education was also enriched by important impulses from John O’Conor (Wilhelm-Kempff-Academy Positano), Bernhard Wetz and Gerhard Schroth (Frankfurt) as well as chamber music lessons by Vassilia Efstathiadou, Antje Weithaas, Grainne Dunne.

In his sparse free time Konrad Engel is interested in many other subjects, such as astronomy and technology but also visual arts, history and philosophy – never to forget about classic cars.

His motto actually couldn’t be described better than in Eisler’s words: „Who seeks to understand music only, won’t understand music at all.“

Foyerkonzert: Gefühlvoll und wild

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Aus Süd-Korea über die Musikhochschule Frankfurt führte es den jungen Pianisten Leo Kwon nach Bingen am Rhein, wo er nun seine neue Heimat gefunden hat.

Freuen Sie sich auf einen jungen Ausnahmepianisten, der in einem abwechslungsreichen Programm sowohl gefühlvoll, als auch virtuos sein Können und seine sensible Musikalität mit ganz unterschiedlichen Werken unter Beweis stellt:

Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)

Nouvelles Suites de Pièces de Clavecin in a-Moll (1726-27)

Allemande 
Trois de Mains 
Gavotte et six doubles

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

Klaviersonate Nr. 1 f-Moll Op. 2 Nr. 1 (1795)

I. Allegro
II. Adagio
III. Menuett
IV. Prestissimo

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847)

Albumblatt in e-Moll Op.117 (ca.1836)

Frederic Chopin (1810-1849)

Scherzi
Nr.2, Op. 31 in b-Moll (1837)
Nr.3, Op. 39 in cis-Moll (1838-1839)

PIANO – Prof. Jacob Leuschner (Hochschule für Musik Detmold)

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Teacher:

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Jacob Leuschner, 
born in Freiburg in 1974, studied in Freiburg and Lübeck. His most important teachers were Helmut Barth, Michel Béroff, Konrad Elser and Leonard Hokanson.

Since 1989, he has performed as a soloist and sought-after chamber musician in many European countries, Japan, South Korea, China and the USA, and has been invited to numerous international festivals. He has been a regular participant in the funding project Bundesauswahl Konzerte Junger Künstler (Federal Selection Concerts Young Artists) held by Deutscher Musikrat.

The awards he has won at major piano competitions testify to his artistic stature: Viotti (Vercelli), Beethoven (Vienna), Schubert (Dortmund), Mozart (Salzburg), Leeds, Rina Sala Gallo (Monza), Deutscher Musikwettbewerb, Deutscher Hochschulwettbewerb – to name just the most important ones.

He is also the recipient of the Possehl Music Prize, the Kai-Uwe von Hassel Prize and the
Wiesbaden Mozart Prize.


Jacob Leuschner taught at the University of Music Lübeck, and was a Visiting Professor at the University of Music Franz Liszt in Weimar. From 2008 to 2014, he held a professorship at the University of Music in Cologne, and then followed a call to join the University of Music in Detmold. He regularly gives masterclasses in many European countries, Japan, China and Korea.

His repertoire ranges from the Virginalists to the present; one focus is the masters of Viennese classical music. He has performed the complete cycles of Mozart’s, Beethoven’s and Schubert’s piano sonatas at several occasions.
He also works as a juror at international piano competitions and as a publisher, and has dealt intensively with historical keyboard instruments. He is the founder and artistic director of the Brahms Piano Competition in
Detmold.

His discography includes not only numerous chamber music pieces, such as the complete works for cello and piano by Reger with Guido Schiefen (Oehms Classics), but also the late Beethoven sonatas and Liszt transcriptions. In addition to two solo CDs, he released a complete recording of Mozart’s sonatas for piano and violin in 2017 with violinist Keiko Urushihara (Nippon Acoustic Records), which was met with enthusiasm by the Japanese trade press and awarded the "Excellence Award" by the Japanese State Office for Culture.

In 2019, his recording of Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations was published by the label „Perfect noise“.

Today, Jacob Leuschner is one of the most distinguished and versatile German pianists of his generation.