Gerrit Zitterbart

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Gerrit Zitterbart on the fortepiano

Gerrit Zitterbart (born May 9, 1952 in Göttingen ) is a German pianist and chamber musician .

Life

Zitterbart received his training in Hanover, Salzburg, Freiburg and Bonn with Hans Leygraf , Erika Haase , Karl Engel , Lajos Rovatkay , Carl Seemann and Stefan Askenase . At the beginning of the pianistic career there were competitive successes in Switzerland, Belgium, Italy and Germany.

In 1976 he founded the Abegg Trio together with Ulrich Beetz ( violin ) and Birgit Erichson ( violoncello ) , which have played together with the original line-up for over 40 years and gave around 1,250 concerts.

Since 1999, Zitterbart plays in a duo with Matthias Metzger (violin), in a duo with Denise Wambsganß he leads in the rare occupation mandolin and fortepiano original works of u. a. Beethoven and Hummel up. Zitterbart is a member of the Arte Ensemble Hannover and has performed in the piano quartet a. a. with the Kandinsky Trio.

Gerrit Zitterbart received the Choc in France for his recording of early Mozart piano concertos, and with the Abegg Trio he was awarded five times at the German Record Critics' Prize (quarterly list).

Abegg Trio

Since 2000, one of his main focuses has been concerts on historic fortepiano . It emerged CD recordings with works of Bach sons , of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Muzio Clementi , Joseph Haydn , Ludwig van Beethoven , Johann Nepomuk Hummel , Franz Schubert , Johannes Brahms . In May 2008 Gerrit Zitterbart was the first pianist to give piano recitals with the fortepiano in Beijing.

Another part of his work are children's concerts, on which the CDs “ The Bach Family ”, “Music That Tells Stories” and “Robert & Peter” are available.

Lecturer and music sponsor

Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media

Zitterbart has been teaching at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media since 1981, and in 1983 he was appointed professor . From 2007 to 2010 he was vice-president of the university and for many years was spokesman for the piano department and course spokesman for the Bachelor and Master courses in keyboard instruments .

In order to give young musicians access to historical ways of playing (HIP = historically informed performance), Zitterbart founded the association Clavier eV at the university , which enables the financing of an instrument collection as an overview of the most important stages in piano construction.

In March 2012 Gerrit Zitterbart opened a piano salon in the old town of Göttingen .

Clavier-Salon Göttingen

CD recordings (selection)

Audio books

  • Reverberation of a love George Sand and Frédéric Chopin ( NDR : Audiobooks of the Year 2006 )
  • What are you doing with your knee, dear Brahms, parodies of great masters by Ochs, Pillney, Priegnitz and Volkmann (Klaus Geitel in the Berliner Morgenpost : The best records of 2005 )
  • Music that tells stories Children's CD with works from Rameau to Bartók, played on fortepiano and modern grand piano
  • Die Familie Bach Children's CD with works by Johann Sebastian Bach and his sons, played on clavichord , harpsichord , fortepiano and modern grand piano
  • Robert & Peter children's CD with works by Schumann (op.68) and Tchaikovsky (op.39)

literature

  • Ingo Harden, Gregor Willmes: Pianist Profiles. 600 pianists: their biography, their style, their recordings . Gerrit Zitterbart. 1st edition. Bärenreiter, Kassel 2008, ISBN 978-3-7618-1616-5 , p. 796-798 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical data of Gerrit Zitterbart in: Wer ist Wer - Das deutsche Who's Who 2000/2001 . 39th edition, Schmidt-Römhild, Verlagsgruppe Beleke, Lübeck 2000, p. 1581, ISBN 978-3-7950-2029-3 .
  2. ^ Adam Valentin Volckmar (1770-1851), a forgotten Rinteln composer
personal data
SURNAME Shiverbeard, Gerrit
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pianist and chamber musician
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Goettingen