Danae Dörken

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Danae Dörken at the 5th International Music Festival in Koblenz, September 23, 2018

Danae Dörken (born August 12, 1991 in Wuppertal ) is a German - Greek pianist . She is the older sister of Kiveli Dörken .

Life

At the age of five, Danae Dörken learned to play the piano with Marina Kheifets at the Subito music school in Düsseldorf . From 2002 to 2012 she was taught by Karl-Heinz Kämmerling at the Hanover University of Music and Theater , and since his death by Lars Vogt . In her youth she won prizes in national and international competitions and has since given concerts at home and abroad as a soloist, with orchestras and with chamber music ensembles. She was a guest at the Bendestorfer Klaviertage festivals , the Kissinger Sommer , the Schwetzinger SWR Festival , the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival , the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Festival and the chamber music festival "Spannungen" in Heimbach and the Rheingau Festival. In May 2018 she made a guest appearance with the Las Vegas Philharmonic Orchestra and in October 2019 with the Edmonton Symphonic Orchestra. In February 2020 she performed in Tokyo and Osaka, in March 2020 at Wigmore Hall in London.

Danae Dörken often plays with her younger sister Kiveli Dörken , who was also a student of Karl-Heinz Kämmerling.

In 2015 Danae Dörken and her sister Kiveli founded the Molyvos International Music Festival (MIMF) on the island of Lesbos , which has been taking place annually since then under the direction of the two sisters.

In 2017 and 2019 Danae Dörken became the mother of two sons. She lives with her family in Königs Wusterhausen, south of Berlin .

Scholarships

She is funded by GEDOK and the Enno and Christa Springmann Foundation and is a scholarship holder of the “Werner Richard - Dr. Carl Dörken Foundation ”, the“ Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben ”, the chamber music festival“ Tension ”and the“ International Music Academy Liechtenstein ”.

Discography and concert activity

Danae Dörken is a pianist under contract with ars produktion and has recorded CDs with pieces by Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach , Franz Schubert , Robert Schumann and Leoš Janáček , among others . As an artist, she is represented by Concert Imagine and Ariel Artists.

  • 2012 Leoš Janáček. On an overgrown path, Sonata 1. X. 1905, Tema con variazioni - Zdenka's Variations, A Memory. Ars production.
  • 2013 International Music Academy in the Principality of Liechtenstein. Vol. 1. Composers: Rachmaninow, Rheinberger, Kapustin, Brahms, Paganini, Chatschaturjan, Dvořák, Sollima, Popper. Together with Sho Akamatsu, violin - Latica Aniä, violoncello - Levon Avagyan, piano - Kristaps Bergs, violoncello - Adrien Boisseau, viola - Andreas Domjanic, piano - Kiveli Dörken , piano - Mario Häring, piano - Benjamin Lai, violoncello - Marin Maras , Violin - Sara Plank, Violin - Nadja Reich, Violoncello - Astrig Siranossian , Violoncello - Kian Soltani , Violoncello - Payam Taghadossi, Violoncello - Zita Varga, Violoncello - Kristina Winiarski, Violoncello. Ars production.
  • 2014 fantasy. F. Schubert: Fantasy in C major op. 15 "Wanderer", CPE Bach: Fantasia in F sharp minor, R. Schumann: Fantasy in C major op. 17. Ars production.
  • 2015 sonatas for violin and piano with Caroline Goulding. George Enescu Impressions d'enfance, op. 28, Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904) Romantic Pieces (Romantické kusy), op. 75, Robert Schumann Violin Sonata No. 2 in D minor, op. 121. Ars production.
  • 2016 with Royal Northern Sinfonia and Lars Vogt. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 21st Piano Concerto in C major KV 467, Felix Mendelssohn 2nd Piano Concerto in D minor op. 40. Ars production.
  • 2017 Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Piano Sextet op.110, Krzysztof Penderecki: Sextet for clarinet, horn, string trio and piano. With: Aaron Pilsan , Anna Reszniak, Elisabeth Kufferath, Maya Meron, Gustav Rivinius, Edicson Ruiz, Jean Johnson, Marie-Luise Neunecker, Byol Kang, Gabriel Schwabe. cAvi.
  • 2019 East and West: Kalomiris: 5 Preludes for piano, Bartok: 6 Romanian folk dances, Chopin: Polonaise No. 1. Grieg: Wedding Day at Troldhaugen op.65 No. 6, Poulenc: 8 Nocturnes, Falla: Danse rituelle du feu. Ars production.
  • 2019 Between Nostalgia and Revolution - Works for Celllo & Piano with Benedict Kloeckner , Genuin.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Awards from Danae Dörken as a child ( Memento from December 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). In: musikschule-subito.de, accessed on June 19, 2018.
  2. ↑ 2017 | Danae Dörken. (No longer available online.) In: danae-doerken.com. Archived from the original on January 5, 2017 (concert dates).;
  3. ↑ a b biography. In: danae-doerken.com, accessed on February 28, 2020 (Danae Dörken at festivals).
  4. ^ Las Vegas Philharmonic. Archived from the original on June 18, 2018 ; Retrieved June 18, 2018 (American English).
  5. ^ Guest Artists. Danae Dörken. piano. In: winspearcentre.com. Winspear / Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, accessed October 31, 2019 (American English).
  6. ↑ Past events. In: danae-doerken.com, accessed on March 1, 2020.
  7. ↑ People behind MIMF. In: molyvosfestival.com. MIMF, archived from the original on June 18, 2018 ; Retrieved on June 18, 2018 (English, Greek, memento of March 30, 2019 with the same information).
  8. ↑ Work and Being • VAN Magazine . In: VAN magazine . June 6, 2018 ( van.atavist.com [accessed June 19, 2018]).
  9. ↑ GEDOK artists.
  10. ^ Danae Dörken at the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben.
  11. ^ Artist portrait at Ars Produktion.
  12. ↑ Contact. In: danae-doerken.com, accessed on May 22, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Dörken, Danae
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Greek pianist
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Wuppertal