Cora Irsen

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Cora Irsen (2012)

Cora Irsen (born November 21, 1974 in Troisdorf ) is a German pianist , presenter , organizer and ECHO KLASSIK Prize winner. She lives in Weimar with her husband Jörg Brückner and their daughter .

Live and act

Cora Irsen comes from a Rhenish family of musicians and began playing the piano at the age of 4. After early piano lessons with her grandfather, the composer Heinz Irsen, she went with 15 years as a junior student at the Cologne Music Academy in the class of Pavel Gililov . In 1993 she studied for 3 years at the Mozarteum in Salzburg with Karl-Heinz Kämmerling , then she completed her soloist training with the concert exam (with distinction) at the Liszt School of Music in Weimar with Rolf-Dieter Arens . She was a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation and the Thuringian Graduate Fund. In 2000 Cora Irsen was a prizewinner at the International Franz Liszt Competition in Weimar. From 2001 to 2017 she had a teaching position at the "Franz Liszt" University of Music in Weimar. Since 2017 she has been a permanent employee of the "Franz Liszt" University of Music in Weimar. Cora Irsen gives concerts as a soloist and chamber music partner in Europe and Asia.

Concerts in "Word & Music"

In her concerts, Cora Irsen tells with her own texts about the life and work of well-known personalities such as Franz Liszt , Richard Wagner , Robert and Clara Schumann , Johannes Brahms , Alice Herz-Sommer and Marie Jaëll . Since 2011 she has been the organizer of her own series of concerts at historical locations in Weimar. In 2016 Cora Irsen wrote a biography about the composer and pianist Marie Jaëll (1846–1925), "The Charmante Unknown" published by Weimar Verlag. In 2017 Cora Irsen recorded the entire piano works of Marie Jaëll (1846–1925) on five CDs as the world's first recording. For this recording she was awarded the ECHO KLASSIK in 2017 .

Discography

  • 2004: J. Brahms, Sonatas (with Peter Hörr, violoncello)
  • 2006: Armin Bachmann , Cora Irsen Liebestraum Obrasso
  • 2009: Franz Liszt and his Bechstein grand piano in Weimar
  • 2010: Irsen plays Liszt - Görner speaks Goethe (with Lutz Görner )
  • 2011: Cora Irsen plays Franz Liszt
  • 2012: Franz Liszt in Weimar
  • 2013: A mystical world of sound - Richard Wagner
  • 2014: Frédéric Chopin - Etudes op.10 & op.25
  • 2015: Marie Jaëll - complete works for piano Vol. 1 ( Querstand )
  • 2015: Marie Jaëll - complete works for piano Vol. 2 ( Querstand )
  • 2016: Marie Jaëll - complete works for piano Vol. 3 ( Querstand )
  • 2017: Marie Jaëll - complete works for piano Vol. 4 ( Querstand )

Web links

Commons : Cora Irsen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Culture prizes : Internationaler Fanz Liszt Piano Competition Weimar-Bayreuth. Accessed on August 6, 2014.
  2. ^ Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar: Institute for Wind Instruments and Percussion, Lecturer. Accessed on August 6, 2014.
  3. ↑ Thüringische Landeszeitung from October 22, 2011: Passion for lisztige love dreams. Accessed on August 6, 2014.
  4. ↑ Iris Henning: Wagner's great-granddaughter and Cora Irsen thrilled in the Kornmarktkirche.Retrieved on August 6, 2014.
  5. ↑ concerti.de: ECHO KLASSIK 2017: CORA IRSEN
  6. ↑ Die Zeit No 13/2002 of March 21, 2002: Voice of his master.Retrieved on August 6, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Irsen, Cora
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brückner-Irsen, Cora
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pianist, presenter and organizer
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Troisdorf