Friederike Haufe

Friederike Haufe is a German pianist .

Life

As a young prizewinner in the Jugend musiziert competition, Friederike Haufe was able to take up piano studies at the Bremen University of Music . Further studies at the music academies in Cologne and Lübeck, among others with Aloys Kontarsky, followed. There she developed a repertoire from classical to Stockhausen . She later focused on virtuoso romantic piano music and art songs. She also took part in master classes for song interpretation with Hartmut Höll . Numerous appearances as a soloist and song accompanist followed.

In 1997 and 1998 they took three concert tours to Israel with performances in Jerusalem, Tel-Aviv and Haifa, and at the invitation of the Goethe-Institut also to the Palestinian autonomous regions with concerts in Bethlehem, Ramallah and East Jerusalem.

In France she made her debut with Robert Schumann's Kreisleriana at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. As a selected pianist she played on the “Legende”, the Steinway concert grand piano by Vladimir Horowitz in Schwerin.

Publications

In 2006 Friederike Haufe released a duo CD "Piano for 4 hands" in the Medien Kontor Hamburg.

Concerts

Friederike Haufe performs mainly as a soloist with recitals and in a duo with Volker Ahmels . The focus of her repertoire is the romanticism with Robert and Clara Schumann and the so-called "ostracized composers".

Friederike Haufe developed and realized conceptual concert programs with the involvement of female composers, the art song and the art of speaking. In 1996 - in the 100th year of Clara Schumann's death - her concert evening from 1863, which has been passed down historically, was performed at the original location in Güstrow and was repeated in 1997 as a tribute to Hamburg in the “Brahms Year” on his birthday at the Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten .

Further concert highlights :

• 2006: World premieres of the two Fantasias for Organ Roller KV 608 (Hamburg) and KV 594 (Schwerin) in the version for 2 pianos by Prof. Franz Beyer (1956/2006), the latter dedicated to the duo Haufe-Ahmels
• 2005: Concerto for 2 pianos in C major BWV 1061 with the Chamber Orchestra of the Mecklenburg State Orchestra under the direction of Johannes Moesus
• 2004: Day of Remembrance of the Victims of National Socialism, German Bundestag Berlin , songs with Christfried Biebrach
• 2004: World premiere of “Adenoid in the Grail” for piano solo by the Italian composer Paolo Colombo
• 2003–2002: Travels to Los Angeles and Cleveland as a solo pianist and in a piano duo
• 2001: Yad Vashem Jerusalem Memorial , recital with Christfried Biebrach
• 2000: Concerts in Prague and Theresienstadt on the occasion of May 8th (as a piano duo, soloist and as a song accompanist)
• 1999: “Adieu 20th Century” in Darmstadt, in piano duo and solo

Radio and television broadcasts

The regional broadcaster HAMBURG 1 broadcast a portrait of her in March 1998 and the NDR Radio Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania one in May 1998. Friederike Haufe worked for the ZDF as a pianist for playback recordings and as a musical advisor for the six-part ZDF television series “Under one roof " With. Live broadcast on Phoenix TV of the memorial hour of the German Bundestag to the victims of the Holocaust with songs by Pavel Haas and Johannes Brahms .

Web links

• Friederike Haufe at Medienkontor Hamburg
• Franz Schubert, Wolfgang Rihm, Franz Liszt - piano for four hands by Friederike Haufe and Volker Ahmels