GrauSchumacher Piano Duo

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The two German pianist Andreas Grau (* 1965 ) and Götz Schumacher (* 1966 ) are as GrauSchumacher Piano Duo , a piano duo . Her repertoire ranges from Schütz to Stockhausen.

biography

In 1981 the 15-year-old pianists Andreas Grau and Götz Schumacher made music together for the first time at the suggestion of their piano teacher Friedemann Rieger. This was followed by studies in Dortmund , Frankfurt , Stuttgart and in Paris with Claude Hellfer. They received significant impulses as a duo from Renate Werner and the piano duo Bauer-Bung, as well as from direct collaboration with the composers Karlheinz Stockhausen , Helmut Lachenmann , Wolfgang Rihm and Péter Eötvös .

Since winning the German Music Competition in 1989 and the Schubert Competition in Graz in 1992, the piano duo has given concerts in the Philharmonie Berlin , Tonhalle Zurich , Konzerthaus Vienna, Cologne Philharmonie , Concertgebouw Bruges and Cité de la Musique Paris as well as at the Salzburg Festival , Schwetzingen Festival , at the piano Festival La Roque d'Antheron, Piano Festival Ruhr , Klara Festival Brussels, Musica Viva Munich and Lucerne Festival . There was cooperation with the German Symphony Orchestra , SWR Sinfonieorchester , Konzerthausorchester Berlin , Bavarian State Orchestra , Radiosymphonieorchester Wien, Orchester National de Lyon, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunk and the conductors Roberto Abbado , Michael Gielen , Lothar Zagrosek , Emanuel Krivine, Heinz Holliger , Péter Eötvös , Kent Nagano , Bertrand de Billy , Andrej Boreyko , Georges Prêtre and Zubin Mehta .

20 CD recordings have been released by the NEOS, col legno and WERGO labels . Andreas Grau and Götz Schumacher received the Le Choc awards from Le monde de la musique , Diapason and The Gramophone Editor's Choice .

Discography

  • Transcriptions . Bach - Debussy - Saint-Saëns - Mozart - Wagner - Rachmaninoff - Tchaikovsky - Ravel, NEOS 2012
  • Carmina burana . Orff, with the SWR vocal ensemble, Rupert Huber, hänssler 2011
  • Concerti I . Mozart - Liszt - Bartók, with DSO Berlin, Ruben Gazarian, NEOS 2010
  • Writing-around-writing . Rihm - Bartók, with Franz Schindlbeck and Jan Schlichte, NEOS 2010
  • Cosmos . Crumb - Kurtág - Stockhausen - Bartók - Eötvös, NEOS 2009
  • Grand duo . Schubert - Shostakovich, NEOS 2009
  • Via crucis . Liszt, with WDR Rundfunkchor, Rupert Huber, NEOS 2009
  • La musique creuse le ciel . Rihm, with DSO Berlin, Peter Rundel, NEOS 2009
  • Le Sacre . Debussy - Stravinsky, NEOS 2008
  • Concerto . Berio, with RSO Vienna, Bertrand de Billy, col legno 2008
  • Visions de l'Amen . Schütz - Messiaen, col legno 2005
  • Homage to Paul Klee . Veress, with Camerata Bern, col legno 2005
  • Variations and Fugues . Mozart - Beethoven - Reger, col legno 2003
  • Bach - Kurtág - Busoni . col legno 2002
  • Paul Hindemith . WERGO 1999
  • Ligeti - Schubert - Ligeti . col legno 1998
  • Dialogues - monologues . Zimmermann, with DSO Berlin, Bernhard Kontarsky, col legno 1997
  • Cosmos . Eötvös, BMC 2003
  • Requiem . Brahms, with Soile Isokoski, Andreas Schmidt, Christoph Spering, opus 111 1997
  • The selfish giant
  • The swineherd . Reinecke, with Ulrich Noethen. Edition Sea Urchin 2001
  • Nutcracker & Mouse King . Reinecke, with Samuel Weiss, Edition Seeigel 2001
  • Prize winner of the German music competition . Bach - Debussy - Ravel - Denissow, harmonia mundi 1990

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Gramophone March 2011. p. 13