Cathy Krier

Cathy Krier (born January 17, 1985 in Luxembourg ) is a Luxembourg concert pianist .

Childhood and youth

Cathy Krier was born on January 17, 1985 in Luxembourg City. She began studying piano at the Conservatory of Luxembourg City at the age of five . Both parents are very music-loving, the father a violinist, the mother a pianist and Cathy started practicing the violin at the age of three.

Since 1999 she has been a member of Pavel Gililov's master class at the Cologne University of Music and Dance . In 2000 she recorded Beethoven's 4th Piano Concerto with the Latvian Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Carlo Jans. In 2006 she accepted an invitation to the master class of Prof. Robert Levin and performed at the Ruhr Piano Festival .

Further masterclasses, among others with Dominique Merlet and Andrea Lucchesini , where she continued and successfully completed her studies at the Scuola di musica di Fiesole, followed. She has also accepted an invitation to the Académie musicale de Villecroze with Dominique Merlet.

Performances and concert activities

At the opening of the Philharmonie Luxembourg in 2005, Cathy Krier played together with the pianist Cyprien Katsaris the version of the piano quintet by Robert Schumann for piano four hands, made by Clara Schumann. In 2007 she took part in the grand opening of the cultural year in Luxembourg. She performs regularly in her home country at the Festival International Echternach, the Festival de Bourglinster and the Festival Musek am Syrdall.

Her international concert activities have taken Cathy Krier to both the United States (Millennium Stage of the Kennedy Center Washington) and the Netherlands, where she gave concerts at the invitation of the Euriade Foundation in Rolduc Abbey. She gave further concerts in Austria, Germany, Latvia, Spain, Andorra, Italy, France and Belgium. This was followed by invitations to the Summer Classics Festival and Pianoplus in Bonn as well as piano recitals in the Museum K20 / K21 Düsseldorf, in the Luxemburger Haus in Berlin, in the Grand Théâtre of the City of Luxembourg and others v. a. In 2012 and 2013 she gave concerts a. a. at the Liepaja Piano Stars Festival, the Midi-Minimes Festival in Brussels, the Sint-Peter Festival in Louvain, the Festival Spaziomusica in Cagliari, at Schloss Elmau, at the Festival d'Hôtel d'Albret, at the Leipzig Piano Summer and in the Mendelssohn House. In addition, she was artist in residence at the Biermans-Lapôtre Paris Foundation and completed a tour of China. In the 2013/14 season there were and are a. Concerts at the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord in Paris, the Philharmonie Luxembourg, the Körber Foundation in Hamburg, the Festival International Echternach, the Festival Nuits d'été à Pausilippe in Naples and the Festival 1001 notes in Limoges on the program there will be several concerts with the Berlin Philharmonic String Quintet and a tour of Colombia.

In addition to her piano recitals, Cathy Krier appears as a soloist with various orchestras, including the Orchester Philharmonique du Luxembourg, the Solistes Européens Luxembourg, L'Estro Armonico, Latvian Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra and the Liepaja Symphony Amber Sound Orchestra under the direction of conductors such as Bramwell Tovey, Garry Walker , Pierre Cao , Yoon K. Lee, and Atvars Lakstigala.

Recordings

In 2008 Cathy Krier's first CD was released with solo works by Scarlatti, Haydn, Chopin, Dutilleux and Müllenbach. Her recording of the piano work of the Czech composer Leoš Janáček, released in 2013 on the CAvi-music label, was praised by the international press for its richness of sound and originality and received, among other things, the “Coup de cœur” by France Musique and the “Pianiste maestro” des French magazine Pianiste awarded. Another CD with the Pièces de Clavecin by Jean-Philippe Rameau and the Musica ricercata by György Ligeti was released in summer 2014.

Prizes and awards

Cathy Krier is the winner of several competitions and grants. In 2003 the Jeunesses Musicales du Luxembourg awarded her the Prix Norbert Stelmes. A year later she received the prize from the IKB International Foundation.

In 2014 the Philharmonie Luxembourg nominated the young Luxembourgish pianist for the Rising Stars series of the European Concert Hall Organization (ECHO). ECHO is an association of 21 concert halls in Europe that launched the Rising Stars series in 1995 to give young talented musicians access to the great stages of Europe. In the 2015/16 season, Cathy Krier will appear in around 20 European concert halls and, among other things, present a new work there that the renowned German composer Wolfgang Rihm will write especially for her.

personality

The music of Rihm, who is not only a composer but also a music writer, suits the musical personality of Cathy Krier very well. Rihm represents an aesthetic that focuses on the subjective need for expression. Krier describes himself as curious, inquisitive and open to new concepts in classical music.

Individual evidence

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Web links

• La Croix: Cathy Krier - Dix Doigts Magiques
• Luxembourg word: Cathy Krier - Coup de Coeur
• Pianist: Leo Jancek
• Pianist: Interview with Cathy Krier
• Wiener Zeitung: Janacek Leos piano music
• Musical Toronto: Cathy Krier with flying colors