GrauSchumacher Piano Duo
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
- ↑ Gramophone March 2011. p. 13