Elisabeth Brauss
Elisabeth Brauss (born January 19, 1995 in Hanover ) is a German pianist .
Life
Elisabeth Brauss, daughter of the music college teacher Martin Brauss , attended the Kaiser Wilhelm and Ratsgymnasium in Hanover . She has been playing the piano since she was four. At the age of 6 she was accepted into Elena Levit's piano class. In 2006, at the age of eleven, she performed at the “Wunderkinder” symposium at a chamber concert at the Stuttgart University of Music and Performing Arts .
From 2007 to 2010 she was a young student at the Institute for Early Intervention for the Musically Gifted (IFF) at the Hanover University of Music and Theater . From 2008 to 2010 she was a student in the piano classes of Elena Levit and Matti Raekallio in Hanover . Since 2010 she has been studying at the University of Music, Drama and Media Hanover (HMTMH) in the piano class of Bernd Goetzke.
Elisabeth Brauß won first place in the national competition “ Jugend musiziert ” in 2002 and 2004 . In 2004, 2006 and 2007 she won the " International Grotrian Steinweg Competition ". In 2004 she received first prize in the Steinway Piano Competition in Hamburg.
Brauss played a. a. before the former Federal President and performed in Ukraine in 2006, in the USA in 2007 and in China in 2008.
As a soloist she performed a. a. she performed with the Dortmund Symphony Orchestra , the Bochum Symphony Orchestra , the Macao Youth Symphony Orchestra, the NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen .
On March 24, 2012, Lower Saxony's Minister of Culture, Johanna Wanka, awarded her the Praetorius Lower Saxony Prize 2012 at the Schauspielhaus Hannover .
In 2013 she won the TONALi Grand Prix ; As the winner, she played the Piano Concerto No. 3, C minor, Op. 37 by Ludwig van Beethoven in the Hamburg Laeiszhalle in the final concert in August 2013 with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen . Since 2014 she has also received a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation . In 2015 she won first prize at the “Sound and Explanation” competition in Frankfurt and played in the final together with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra. In 2016 she won the Kissinger Piano Olympics competition .
In 2017 her debut CD with works by Beethoven, Prokofiev, Chopin and Denhoff was released by OehmsClassics , which was awarded an “Editor's Choice” by the British Gramophone magazine. For the 2018/19 and 2019/20 seasons she was selected as one of six musicians for the BBC New Generation Artist Scheme .
Web links
- Elisabeth Brauss at the Tonalisten Agency
- Hannah Suppa: Elisabeth Brauß - The Piano Girl . In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung , May 23, 2009
- Elisabeth Brauss. Altmark Festival; Vita; accessed on March 2, 2015
- Elisabeth Brauß - website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Symposium “Wunderkinder” on the occasion of the Mozart Year 2006 ( Memento of the original from May 9, 2014 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. (PDF; 117 kB)
- ↑ Prize winners 2008. (PDF) In: Stiftung Jugend musiziert. 2008, archived from the original on April 10, 2010 ; accessed on May 9, 2014 .
- ↑ TONALi Prize Winners' Concert ─ Russia and Germany advanced to become a musical dream couple. (PDF) Retrieved May 9, 2014 .
- ↑ Symphony Orchestra of the Hannover Medical School. In: www.mhh-orchester.de. Archived from the original on January 8, 2010 ; accessed on May 9, 2015 .
- ↑ Elisabeth Brauß ( Memento of the original from April 2, 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. ; Vita, accessed on March 2, 2015
- ↑ Lower Saxony Ministry for Science and Culture on the presentation of the Praetorius Music Prize 2012 with the jury's reasons ( Memento from January 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Music Prize 2015: Piano competition "Sound and Explanation - Conveying Work in Music and Word" ( Memento of the original from April 24, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Official website of the Kulturkreis der Deutschen Wirtschaft. Retrieved March 2, 2015
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Brauss, Elisabeth |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German pianist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 19, 1995 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover |