Peter Rösel

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Peter Rösel in concert on October 31, 2015 in Dresden

Peter Rösel (born February 2, 1945 in Dresden ) is a German concert pianist .

Life

He received his first piano lessons from 1951 with Ingeborg Finke-Siegmund in Dresden. Peter Rösel completed a five-year course of study with Dmitri Bashkirow and Lev Oborin at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory . He holds a professorship for piano at the Carl Maria von Weber University of Music in Dresden. Rösel lives in Dresden, is married and has two children, including the opera singer Gabriele Rösel .

Awards

Peter Rösel won a second prize at the International Robert Schumann Competition in Zwickau in 1963 , was the first German to win the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1966 (6th prize) and in 1968 he won a silver medal at the Montreal International Piano Competition . In 1972 he received the Art Prize of the GDR and in 2009 the Art Prize of the State Capital Dresden. In 2016 Rösel was awarded the Mozart Prize of the Saxon Mozart Society. In doing so, she pays tribute to the “outstanding work of the pianist, which is characterized by continuous, competent and intensive care of the piano works of Wolfgang Amadé Mozart”.

Performances and concerts

Rösel has been appearing at international festivals (including Salzburg , Edinburgh , London Proms, Perth , Hollywood Bowl, Hong Kong ) and with many important orchestras such as Los Angeles and the Royal Philharmonic , Detroit Symphony and the Berlin Philharmonic for years . He played with well-known conductors such as Blomstedt , Boreyko , Dutoit , Fedossejew , Haenchen , Haitink , Harding , Herbig , Janowski , Kempe , Kitajenko , Kondraschin , Sanderling , Soudant , Stein , Temirkanov , Tennstedt and Vonk . With Kurt Masur and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra alone , he has given concerts on international podiums over two hundred times.

Symphonic highlights of the last few years were a. Concerts with the London Philharmonic Orchestra , the Gulbenkian Orchestra Lisbon , the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra , the KBS Symphony Orchestra Seoul , the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg , New Japan Philharmonic , the German Symphony Orchestra and the Saxon State Orchestra Dresden.

In 2005 he played all five Beethoven concerts in the Semperoper with the Kioi Sinfonietta Tokyo . Peter Rösel has made guest appearances in over 40 countries on all continents.

Recordings

Peter Rösel has made numerous CD recordings, including a. an outstanding complete recording of the piano works of Johannes Brahms . Also worth mentioning are his recordings of piano works by Robert Schumann with Kurt Masur at the conductor's desk.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Winner of the Schumann Competition in Zwickau
  2. ^ Tchaikovsky Competition - Prize Winner 1966 ( Memento from June 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Silver medal for Peter Rösel
  4. ↑ Peter Rösel receives Mozart Prize 2016. Saxon Mozart Society e. V., April 20, 2016, accessed April 21, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Rösel, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German concert pianist
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden