Frank Dupree

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Frank Dupree (* 6. December 1991 as Frank Düpree in Rastatt ) is a pianist , conductor , percussionist and composer .

He began taking drum lessons at the age of three , and then took piano lessons at the age of five . From 2001 he took lessons in music and composition. In 2002 he switched to a piano class for gifted children at the Karlsruhe University of Music . As the only young student nationwide, he was also admitted to the music college as a major in conducting in 2004/05. He is currently studying piano with Sontraud Speidel and conducting with Werner Stiefel and Andreas Weiss .

Frank Dupree has now won over 60 prizes in national competitions such as Jugend musiziert , but also in numerous international competitions. In 2008 he won the junior competition at the Minnesota International Piano-e-Competition .

At the Hans-von-Bülow piano competition in Meiningen (July 12th to 19th, 2012) Frank Dupree won first prize and the audience prize in Group P (professionals) in the “Conducting from the piano” category with Beethoven's third piano concerto . He contested this competition immediately after an open-air concert with the Young Generation Orchestra in Meersburg and therefore had to keep a total of two piano concerts and a symphony (orchestral parts and solo parts) in mind during these days.

Dupree is the winner of the 40th German Music Competition Bonn 2014.

literature

  • Rainer Wollenschneider: Frank Düpree from Rastatt - at the age of 17 pianist, composer and conductor. In: Heimatbuch 2009, district of Rastatt . ISBN 3-925553-27-4 , pp. 113-122.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Pianist Frank Dupree winner of the German Music Competition. In: Focus online. April 4, 2014, accessed April 7, 2014 .