Gregor Willmes

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Gregor Willmes

Gregor Willmes (born March 30, 1966 in Wanne-Eickel ) is a German musicologist, music writer and cultural manager.

life and work

Willmes took private piano, organ and music theory lessons from Matthias Kreuels . He studied musicology, philosophy and art history at the University of Bochum.

Since 1989 Willmes has been writing about music for daily and music magazines. He also writes program texts for large music festivals, booklet texts for large record labels and musical articles. Willmes was a volunteer at the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung . From 1997 he was editor and from 2003 to 2008 editor-in-chief of the music magazine Fono Forum . He is co-author of the work PianistenProfile - 600 interpreters: their biography, their style, their recordings . Since 2008 Willmes has been working as cultural manager for the Berlin piano factory C. Bechstein Pianoforte Aktiengesellschaft . Since 2000 he has been a member of the jury for the German Record Critics' Prize in the piano category. In 2017 he was appointed to the board of the Carl Bechstein Foundation.

Willmes was a lecturer in piano music history and literature at the Detmold University of Music in Dortmund.

Works by Gregor Willmes

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

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The article is based on the information in: Prize of the German Record Critics: Gregor Willmes (short biography). Retrieved May 4, 2019 .
  2. ↑ The article is based on the information in: Fono Forum: Gregor Willmes (short biography). Retrieved May 4, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Founder and Board of Directors of the Carl Bechstein Foundation. Accessed on August 27, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Willmes, Gregor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musicologist, music writer and cultural manager
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Wanne-Eickel