Alexander Krichel

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Alexander Krichel - 2015
Alexander Krichel - 2015

Alexander Krichel (* 1989 in Hamburg ) is a German pianist .

Life

Alexander Krichel started playing the piano at the age of six. As a schoolboy, he won the Mathematics Olympiad , the federal foreign language competition and the Jugend forscht competition in biology. Krichel was supported by the Rotary Club Hamburg as a schoolboy . He passed the entrance exam for the William Stern Society's remedial class for gifted mathematicians at the University of Hamburg with distinction .

At the age of 15, Krichel began his studies at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater as a young student .

Alexander Krichel has won numerous national and international music competitions and sponsorship awards, including Jugend musiziert and 1st prize at the International Steinway Piano Competition . Furthermore, in 2007 he received the Schrader Prize for the best musical performance in the entrance exams at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media, where he studied with Vladimir Vsevolodowitsch Krainew until his death in 2011. He is currently continuing his studies in London at the Royal College of Music with Dmitri Konstantinowitsch Alexejew . In 2013 he was awarded the ECHO Klassik as a young artist (piano).

Alexander Krichel received a scholarship from the Oscar and Vera Ritter Foundation as well as the PE support group for students of Musik eV Mannheim and the stART program , with which Bayer Culture supports young artists over a period of three years.

Appearances

Krichel has already given concerts in the Konzerthaus Berlin , the Laeiszhalle Hamburg, the Herkulessaal and the Prinzregententheater in Munich, the Tonhalle Düsseldorf and the Beethoven-Haus Bonn. At festivals he was a guest at the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival and the Kissinger Sommer . He has given international concerts in the USA , South America and at the renowned Piano aux Jacobins festival in Toulouse , France .

Discography

  • "INSIGHTS" - Alexander Krichel plays Liszt (Published by Telos Music, 2011)
  • Alexander Krichel "Spring Night" (Published by Sony Music Entertainment, 2013)
  • Chopin: Hummel: Mozart (Published by Sony Music Entertainment, 2014)
  • Sergej Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2 & Moments Musicaux (Published by Sony Music Entertainment, 2015)
  • Maurice Ravel: Miroirs (Published by Sony Music Entertainment, 2017)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ sonymusic.de: Alexander Krichel ( Memento from April 29, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  2. ^ Piano recital in the town hall - a musical delight Hamburger Abendblatt dated May 9, 2009
  3. ^ NWZ Online: An exceptional talent not only at the piano , accessed on April 11, 2013.
  4. ↑ NDR.de: Krichel makes the piano sing. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on March 11, 2020 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.ndr.de
  5. ↑ jpc.de: Alexander Krichel - Spring Night, accessed on April 11, 2013
  6. ↑ Kulturradio RBB: "Spring Night". (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on March 11, 2020 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.kulturradio.de
  7. ↑ echoklassik.de - Prize Winner 2013 ( Memento from June 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ mediabiz.de: Music Week - "Spring Night" Alexander Krichel, accessed on April 11, 2013
  9. ↑ CHEM Punkt magazine: Career start with Bayer Kultur ( Memento from November 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ↑ Bayer Kultur: stART - Alexander Krichel ( Memento from July 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  11. ↑ Alexander Krichel - Biography ( Memento from March 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

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SURNAME Krichel, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pianist
DATE OF BIRTH 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg