Anna and Ines Walachowski

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Ines and Anna Walachowski, 2013

The sisters Anna (born October 7, 1966 in Katowice , Poland ) and Ines Walachowski (born June 8, 1969 in Dzierżoniów , Poland) together form a piano duo .

Career

The two sisters came to play the piano by accident. During the mother's hospital stay, the friendship began with a piano teacher who accompanied the siblings musically for the first few years. Later both attended the music high school for gifted students in Breslau . They are graduates of the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media and the Salzburg Mozarteum . They received significant musical impulses from Karl-Heinz Kämmerling , Alfons Kontarsky and Josef Anton Scherrer.

Anna and Ines Walachowski's repertoire ranges from Johann Sebastian Bach to contemporary music . They master the coordinated double game with four hands on one as well as on two wings. Since making their debut as a duo in 1996, they have appeared in the Berlin Philharmonie , the Gewandhaus Leipzig , the Liederhalle Stuttgart and the Prinzregententheater in Munich . You have made guest appearances in Switzerland at the Stadtcasino Basel and the KKL Luzern .

Further engagements took her to festivals:

The American music critic and journalist Harold C. Schonberg was impressed by the vital playing style of the two pianists . His comment on their debut CD read:

“They are very good. They seem to have unlimited technique, they use a very wide dynamic range, they have oodles of temperament and unfaltering rhythm. [...] We will be hearing from them again. "

"You are very good. Their technique seems limitless, they use a very broad, dynamic palette, they have tons of temperament and an indomitable rhythm. [...] We didn't hear it for the last time. "

- Harold C. Schonberg , 1996

The German music journalist Christof Jetzschke was later of the opinion:

"The two pianists lack nothing, neither temperament, sparkling rhythmic design, nor warmth or sonic sensitivity."

- Christof Jetzschke : Klassik Heute, 2010

Her recordings were broadcast on television programs in the WDR culture series west.art and on radio stations such as BBC London and Radio France Paris. In the summer of 2003, the film portrait piano double was made in a WDR production for ARTE . Cooperation with the TV presenter Roger Willemsen , politician Norbert Blüm and actor Rufus Beck expanded the artistic spectrum of the duo.

The pianists Anna and Ines Walachowski founded the Bedburg Concert Society in 2006 . On Schloss Bedburg made music among others already Justus Frantz , Rico Gulda , Ron Abramski , Peter Orth , Ludwig Güttler , Boldoczki , the Philharmonia Quartett Berlin and the Kurpfälzische Chamber Orchestra Mannheim .

Discography

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Music high school for gifted students in Wroclaw Homepage of the website, accessed on October 26, 2013
  2. ^ Tilman Abegg: Competitions demand expression and precision from the pianist ( Memento from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). In: Ruhr-Nachrichten , February 18, 2012; Retrieved October 26, 2013
  3. ↑ Piano duo Anna and Ines Walachowski . In: Klappe auf - The culture magazine of the Karlsruhe region, March 2008 edition; Retrieved October 26, 2013
  4. ↑ Sisters in perfect harmony . In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , July 8, 2004, accessed on October 26, 2013
  5. ↑ Prinzregententheater: Karl May by and with Roger Willemsen . In: munichx.de, March 19, 2009; Retrieved October 26, 2013
  6. ↑ Turbulent daydreams . In: Ludwigsburg Palace Festival, June 14, 2009; Retrieved October 26, 2013
  7. ^ Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra . Homepage of the website, accessed on October 26, 2013
  8. ^ Christof Jetzschke: Piano Duo Anna & Ines Walachowski . In: Klassik Heute , March 19, 2010; Retrieved October 26, 2013
  9. ↑ arte.tv
  10. ^ Bedburger Konzertgesellschaft . Homepage of the website, accessed on October 26, 2013