Christian Seibert (pianist)

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Christian Seibert (* 1975 in Delmenhorst ) is a German pianist . He founded the Kleist Music School, which has made it its goal to promote ensemble playing from an early age.

life and career

Christian Seibert comes from a family of musicians - his father is the pianist and chamber musician Kurt Seibert - and made his first public appearances at the age of ten. At 16 he began his studies with Pavel Gililov in Cologne. This was followed by study visits to Vienna and accompanying master classes with renowned pianists such as Bruno Leonardo Gelber and Rudolf Kehrer . International competition successes, including the Busoni Competition in Bolzano and the Robert Schumann Competition in Zwickau, paved the way for him to pursue a lively international concert career. a. with the European Union Chamber Orchestra, and for inclusion in numerous funding programs.

In March 2013 he founded the Kleist Music School in Frankfurt (Oder). In the same year Christian Seibert was appointed artistic director of the “lounge concerts” at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder).

Festivals and concerts

The music of the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries is particularly important to him. Working for rare repertoire, he played 22 concerts with Furtwängler's 65-minute piano quintet with the Kairos Quartet Salzburg on a four-country tour. He can be heard regularly at festivals such as the Alpenklassik Festival Bad Reichenhall, the Bodenseefestival, the Czech Dvořák Festival, the Festival International Echternach (Luxembourg), the Festival Internacional de Música Santander (Spain) and the Ruhr Piano Festival and gives solo evenings in Munich (Gasteig ), Salzburg (residence), Bremen (bell), Hamburg (music hall), Prague, London (Wigmore Hall), New York, Atlanta and Dubai.

Recordings

His interest in the music of the turn of the century led to radio productions and recordings by WDR a . a. the rarely played, highly demanding concert etudes by Ernst Toch , which the rarity label cpo brought onto the market. He dedicated his second cpo CD to the composer Paul Hindemith , and in 2012 the works for piano and orchestra by Alexander Tansman with the Brandenburg State Orchestra Frankfurt / Oder under GMD Howard Griffiths were published by cpo. Elisabeth Richter in her CD presentation on WDR3 TonArt: “... The precision and sovereignty with which Christian Seibert plays the hellishly difficult piano part are simply fascinating and his musical fire, his sensitivity and his touch nuances are as if made for Tansman's colorful tonal language. ... "(July 13, 2012)

The entire sonata piano works by Krzysztof Meyer were released on the EDA label in 2011 . The piano works by Nino Rota , which will be published soon, have already been recorded .

  • 2004 Ernst Toch: Capriccetti op.36, Kleinstadtbilder op.49, Sonata op.47, Burlesken op.31, Concert Etudes op.55, CPO 999 926 2
  • 2007 Paul Hindemith: Piano Sonata No. 3, Dance Pieces op.19, In ​​One Night op.15, CPO 777 171 2
  • 2011 Krzysztof Meyer: Piano Sonatas No. 1 6, Aphorisms op.3, Quasi una fantasia op.104, EDA 36 (2CD)
  • 2012 Alexandre Tansman: Concertino (1913), Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (1931), CPO 777 449 2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Winners list of the Robert Schumann Competition
  2. ↑ Viadrina Lounge Concerts Oderpost, October 20, 2013
  3. ↑ Critique of the Toch recording on musicweb international
  4. ^ Criticism from the listener for the Hindemith CD
  5. ↑ WERGO information on the Krzysztof Meyer box at EDA
  6. ↑ Orchestra ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. for the Tansman recording @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dasorchester.de
personal data
SURNAME Seibert, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pianist
DATE OF BIRTH 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Delmenhorst