Christopher Hinterhuber

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Christopher Hinterhuber (2012)

Christopher Hinterhuber (born June 28, 1973 in Klagenfurt ) is an Austrian pianist .

Life

Christopher Hinterhuber began studying music at the Klagenfurt Conservatory. He then attended Rudolf Kehrer's class at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna . From 1996 to 1998 he studied simultaneously at the Accademia Incontri col Maestro in Imola with Lazar Berman , Leonid Margarius, Alexander Lonqich, Louis Lortie and others. In 1998 he completed his training in Heinz Medjimorec's class at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna.

Hinterhuber has worked with European symphony orchestras and has given concerts under the conductors Vladimir Ashkenazy , Yakov Kreizberg , Bruno Weil , Sylvain Cambreling , Dennis Russell Davies , Bertrand de Billy , Christian Arming , Howard Griffith and Beat Furrer . He played chamber music with violinists Ernst Kovacic , Rainer Honeck and Patricia Kopatchinskaja, among others .

Christopher Hinterhuber took part in international competitions and was a prizewinner of the Bach competitions in Leipzig and Saarbrücken, the Concours Géza Anda in Zurich, the Unisa competition in Pretoria and in 2001 won the 2nd prize and several special prizes at the Beethoven competition in Vienna.

Hinterhuber's recordings of piano works by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and all piano concertos by Ferdinand Ries , published on the Naxos label, have received international attention . The Ries series was started in 2006 with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra , and in March 2009 Vol. 3 was released with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra . His recording of works for piano and orchestra by Johann Nepomuk Hummel received the Editor's Choice of the English Gramophone magazine. In 2000, Hinterhuber appeared in the Austro-French film The Piano Player by Michael Haneke based on the book by Elfriede Jelinek in image (his hands) and sound (works by Schubert , Schönberg and Rachmaninoff ).

Since October 2010 he has been professor for piano at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna . In 2012 Hinterhuber took over the piano part of the Altenberg Trio from Claus-Christian Schuster .

Christopher Hinterhuber lives in Vienna .

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  2. ↑ BBC
personal data
SURNAME Hinterhuber, Christopher
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian pianist
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Klagenfurt