Hardy Rittner
Hardy Rittner (born May 9, 1981 in Rüsselsheim ) is a German pianist .
Life
Rittner received his first piano lessons at the age of four and began studying piano and fortepiano in 1998 at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg in the classes of Karl-Heinz Kämmerling and Siegbert Rampe . After receiving his diploma there in 2003 with distinction, he continued his studies at the University of the Arts in Berlin with Klaus Hellwig and graduated there in 2007. In 2009 he completed a postgraduate course leading to the concert exam; In addition, he devotes himself to his other major, music theory, which he studies with Hartmut Fladt - also at the Berlin University of the Arts. Hardy Rittner took master classes with Paul Badura-Skoda , Dominique Merlet , Christian Zacharias and Andrej Gavrilov and received significant artistic suggestions from Maria João Pires , Sylvain Cambreling , Ivo Pogorelich and Krystian Zimerman .
Rittner has given concerts in Europe, the USA, South Korea and Taiwan, where he made his debut during a tour in the National Concert Hall Taipei. In the summer of 2007 he gave a concert at Bellevue Palace at the invitation of the Federal President . A recording of Pierre Boulez , Sonata No. 1 was made as a radio production . In MDG appeared Brahms CDs Early Piano Works - earlier than first recordings piano works by Brahms on original pianoforte time. He used instruments from Johann Baptist Streicher from 1851 and from Ignaz Bösendorfer from 1849/50.
The pianist lives in Berlin .
He was appointed professor of piano at the Freiburg University of Music .
Awards
Hardy Rittner, who has been sponsored by Bayer Kultur as part of the stART program since May 2009, was the youngest winner in the history of the Rina Sala Gallo piano competition in Monza (Italy) in 1996, and in 2002 the Académie de Musique Lausanne (in duo with Yue- Yen Li, violin) and in 2005 received the special prize for the best interpretation of Isang Yun's Interlude A at the Gyeongnam International Piano Competition in South Korea. Rittner was included in the “Live-Music Now” series in Salzburg and in 2002/2003 was recognized by the Herbert von Karajan Center in Vienna for his extraordinary artistic talent.
In October 2009, Rittner received the Echo-Klassik-Preis of the German music industry as "Young Artist of the Year 2009".
Discography
- 2008 - CD 1: the early Brahms (MDG)
- 2008 - CD 2: the early Brahms (MDG)
- 2009 - CD 3: Arnold Schönberg, Complete Piano Works (MDG)
Web links
- Artist homepage of Hardy Rittner
- Profile page of Hardy Rittner on the homepage of a concert management
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rittner, Hardy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German pianist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 9, 1981 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ruesselsheim |