Frank-Immo Zichner

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Frank-Immo Zichner (born October 25, 1962 in Görlitz ) is a German pianist .

Life

Zichner studied in Dieter Zechlin's master class at the “Hanns Eisler” University of Music in Berlin . His later sponsor was Menahem Pressler . Frank-Immo Zichner is a guest at various international festivals, including the Berliner Festwochen , the Berlin Biennale , in Banff (Canada), the Bad Kissinger Musiksommer and the Moscow Autumn. Concerts have taken him as a pianist and chamber musician to over 40 countries in Europe, Scandinavia, Southeast Asia, Central and South America and Japan. From 2000 to 2013 Zichner played in the Aperto Piano Quartet together with Gernot Süßmuth (violin), Stefan Fehlandt (viola) and Hans-Jakob Eschenburg (cello). Frank Reinecke (violin), Stefan Fehlandt (viola) and Jonathan Weigle (violoncello) have been playing with Zichner in the Aperto Piano Quartet since 2017.

Frank-Immo Zichner taught at the Liszt School of Music Weimar , the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University of Music and Theater in Leipzig and the Hanns Eisler University of Music in Berlin. He is visiting professor at the School of Music in Bloomington (USA).

Since 2013 he has been a lecturer in chamber music at the Berlin University of the Arts . In the same year he founded the Chamber Music Center of the Berlin University of the Arts.

Frank-Immo Zichner has been visiting professor for chamber music at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw since 2019 .

Prizes and awards

Discography (selection)

  • Edition Refugium ER002: Schumann op.11 / Brahms Handel Variations op.24
  • Edition Refugium ER003: Schumann op.17 / Schubert Wanderer Fantasy
  • Edition Refugium ER004: Schumann op.73 / Brahms op.120.1 / Berg op.5 with Ib Hausmann, clarinet
  • Edition Refugium ER005: " Wilhelm Kempff in honor", Schumann op. 82, Kempff op. 47, Beethoven op. 10.3
  • Melodia RDCD-00247/00248: Beethoven, Complete Works for Piano and Violoncello with Marina Tarasova
  • Edition Abseits EDA 008: Schönberg, Ode to Napoleon with Roland Hermann , Vogler Quartet, Michael Sanderling
  • Dabringhaus MDG 307 0589-2: Webern, piano quintet op. 0 with Leipzig string quartet
  • Dabringhaus MDG 603 0557-2: Francaix Le Heure du Berger with Chamber Association Berlin
  • hrMEDIA LC 11252: Fauré, piano quartets with Aperto Piano Quartet
  • Naxos 8.570785 / 8.570786: Reger, piano quartets with Aperto Piano Quartet
  • Kairos 0012882KAI: Mendoza, Splinters of Fog with Aperto Piano Quartet
  • Capriccio SACD 71 112: Hartmann, concerto for viola with piano with Tatjana Masurenko, RSB Berlin, Marek Janowski
  • Capriccio SACD 71 099: Casella, triple concert with Matthias Wollong , Danjulo Ishizaka , RSB Berlin, Michael Sanderling
  • Wergo WER 6559 2: Juliane Klein, portrait CD with Aperto Piano Quartet, Ensemble Resonanz, Peter Rundel
  • Querstand vkjk 1128: Franz Schubert, The Violin Sonatas with Gernot Süssmuth
  • Querstand vkjk 1414: Camille Saint-Saëns, Carnival of the Animals, Gabriel Fauré, Dolly-Suite op.56, Francis Poulenc, Babar the little elephant with Anano Gokieli, piano, Michael Sens, speaker
  • NCA 60252: Stravinsky, Le Sacre du Printemps, Bartók Sonata for 2 pianos and percussion with Frank Gutschmidt, piano, Dominic Oelze and Torsten Schönfeld, percussion
  • Capriccio C5197: Schulhoff, Concerto Doppio for flute and piano, 2nd piano concerto, with Jaques Zoon, flute, German Symphony Orchestra Berlin, Roland Kluttig, conductor
  • CPO 7136601: Ludwig Thuille, cello sonata op. 22, trio for piano, violin and viola, violin sonatas op. 1 and op. 30 with Mark Gothoni, violin, Ulrich Eichenauer, viola, Peter Hörr, cello

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Frank-Immo Zichner at the Berlin University of the Arts .
  2. ↑ Aktuellności. Fryderyk Chopin University of Music , accessed March 22, 2020 (Polish).
personal data
SURNAME Zichner, Frank-Immo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pianist
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Goerlitz