Friedrich Höricke

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Friedrich Höricke (* 1963 in Cologne ) is a German pianist and composer .

biography

Friedrich Höricke played his first piano recital in Cologne at the age of eleven. At the age of thirteen he was accepted as the youngest student in Günter Ludwig's master class at the Cologne University of Music . At the same time he attended the apostle high school in Cologne . At the age of 18 he received first prize at the Tomassoni competition at the Cologne University of Music and one prize at the Busoni piano competition . This was followed by further training at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia , where he was taught by Jorge Bolet , Gary Graffman , Mieczysław Horszowski and Seymour Lipkin . This was followed by first prize at the Philadelphia Young Artists Competition, as well as concert engagements in America, Asia, Western, Central and Eastern Europe. He then published CDs, increasingly with his own compositions for piano or for piano and orchestra.

In 1985 Friedrich Höricke married the sexologist Shere Hite in New York , where they lived together in an apartment on 5th Avenue . Höricke and Hite later moved to Germany, where they took an apartment in Cologne . In 1999 the couple divorced. Höricke is married to Astrid von Platen-Höricke and has lived in Senzke in Brandenburg since 2004 . From June 1, 2010 to November 2012, he was managing director of Schloss Ribbeck GmbH.

style

As a composer and pianist, Höricke feels obliged to the tradition of the great composing piano virtuosos . He tries to take up their lines of tradition and integrates both his own piano works and his own transcriptions of other works into his concert programs. His concert suite from Steinblume , Prokofiev 's last ballet, can sometimes be heard. In 2004 his piano concerto was premiered in the St. Petersburg Philharmonic .

Among other things, he is dedicated to the rediscovery of Ignaz Friedman .

Discography (selection)

  • The Merry Wives of Windsor - and other works by Otto Nicolai . Together with the Kartäuserkantorei and the Cologne Radio Orchestra, conductor Michail Jurowski . Delta Music, Frechen 1998. (Capriccio 10592)
  • Love & Passion - Passionate piano works with thoughts from Shere Hite. Compositions by Liszt , Rachmaninoff , Gershwin and Debussy, among others . EastWest Records, Hamburg 1998. (Red Moon 3984-25 187-2)
  • Friedrich Höricke plays Beethoven - Sonata No. 28 in A major and Sonata No. 30 in E major as well as Variations and Fugue op.35.Bella Musica, Bühl 1995. (Antes Edition BMCD 31.9038)
  • Serge Rachmaninoff - Sonata No. 2, op.36.Dabringhaus and Grimm, Detmold 1994. (MDG 611 0547-2)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Shere Hite Wed To Fred Horicke . In: New York Times, October 20, 1985. Available online (Retrieved June 16, 2008)
  2. ↑ Martha Smilgis: St. Joe to Fifth Avenue . In: TIME Magazine, October 12, 1987, available online (Retrieved April 9, 2008)
  3. ^ David Streitfeld: Shere Hite and the Trouble With Numbers . In: The Washington Post, November 10, 1987. Available online (Retrieved June 16, 2008)
  4. ↑ Victoria McKee: Shere Hite, Now a German Citizen, Finds Appreciation and Celebrity . In: New York Times, April 7, 1996. Available online (Retrieved June 16, 2008)
  5. ↑ Nada Weigelt: Orgasm for women too - Shere Hite turns 65 . In: dpa report at ntv from November 2, 2007. Available online (accessed on June 16, 2008)
  6. ↑ Change of managing director at Schloss Ribbeck GmbH ( Memento of the original from August 25, 2007 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. , www.havelland.de, press release of May 28, 2010, accessed on September 9, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.havelland.de
  7. ↑ Patrik Rachner: Schloss Ribbeck GmbH: Höricke dismissed as managing director. In: Märkische online newspaper. November 22, 2012, accessed July 15, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Höricke, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pianist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne