Cornelia Osterwald

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Cornelia Osterwald (born March 25, 1975 in Altenburg ) is a German harpsichordist and lecturer in early music .

Career

Cornelia Osterwald studied piano , harpsichord and fortepiano at the "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" University of Music and Theater in Leipzig with Professor Helgeheide Schmidt and Professor Christine Schornsheim from 1993 to 2004 . This was followed by postgraduate studies in early music with Professor Ludger Rémy at the Carl Maria von Weber Academy of Music in Dresden , and again with Christine Schornsheim in Leipzig .

She also attended master classes and had private lessons with Walter Heinz Bernstein, Gustav Leonhardt , Andreas Staier and Menno van Delft .

Cornelia Osterwald appears as a soloist and continuo player , so u. a. at the Leipzig International Bach Festival , the Handel Festival in Halle (Saale) , at the Saxon Mozart Festival in Chemnitz and the Walkenried Cloister Concerts , as well as on Deutschlandfunk , MDR and NDR .

In addition, she has also made solo and chamber music guest appearances a. a. in the Chemnitzer Barockorchester, Mendelssohn Chamber Orchestra Leipzig, Neues Bachisches Collegium Musicum , Telemannisches Collegium Michaelstein , Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Cottbus, Staatsorchester Halle, Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt (Oder) , Leipziger Barockorchester and Ensemble Frauenkirche .

From 2001 to 2012 , Cornelia Osterwald taught harpsichord , chamber music and accompaniment at the Georg Friedrich Händel Conservatory in Halle (Saale) and at the Institute for Music at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg .

Since 2004 she has been teaching harpsichord, chamber music and accompaniment at the "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" University of Music and Theater in Leipzig.
In addition, she has been a lecturer for harpsichord at the Evangelical College for Church Music in Halle (Saale) since 2011 .

She played with Jörg Faßmann and Lenka Matějáková in the Baroque Trio Dresden-Leipzig .

Cornelia Osterwald has made numerous CD and radio recordings.

Discography (selection)

criticism

"Technically and musically extremely safe"

- The Göttinger Tageblatt about a concert with the Quattrovaganti Ensemble, 2006

"You want to hear them more often"

- The Lausitzer Rundschau about a concert with the Bach Consort Cottbus, 2007

"Highly virtuoso, fascinatingly natural"

- The Rheinpfalz on a concert with the Mendelssohn Chamber Orchestra Leipzig, 2008

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d http://www.ehk-halle.de/hochschule/fachgruppe-klavier/cornelia-osterwald.html
  2. Archive link ( Memento from June 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  3. https://www.hmt-leipzig.de/de/home/personen-und-kontakt?id=1070&
  4. http://www.papageno-chemnitz.de ( Memento from August 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  5. http://kultur-cottbus.de/Kulturjahr-2007 ( Memento from August 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  6. http://www.mko-leipzig.de