Hartmut Leistritz
Hartmut Leistritz (born September 19, 1956 in Warendorf ) is a German pianist .
Life
He grew up in the everyday life of a family of church musicians, involved in multiple liturgical and musical tasks as a choir singer, recorder player, organist and double bass player. He only began a specific pianistic training when he began studying music at the age of 16 with Heinz Budde. Two years later he was already playing César Franck's “Symphonic Variations” and the German premiere of a piano concerto by Gottfried von Eine as a soloist with the Münster Symphony Orchestra , recorded by WDR . He completed piano studies with Eliza Hansen at the Lübeck University of Music and composition with Jens Rohwer .
As a soloist, accompanist and chamber musician, he gave concerts a. a. with Sylvia Geszty , Brigitte Mira , William Workman, Christiane Edinger , Carola Nasdala , Claudia Schwarze , Peter Sadlo , Anette von Hehn , in the Trio Triton and in the Ensemble l'art pour l'art Hamburg in over 20 countries. He also dealt with rock , jazz and experimental music . Recordings were made for WDR, NDR , SWF , Deutschlandfunk , Radio Bremen , Radio Vatican , Radio France and ZDF .
He has been teaching piano at the Lübeck University of Music since the age of 21 and now lives in Berlin .
Works
- 1993 stage music for plays by George Tabori
- 2001 incidental music for Bertolt Brecht's “7 Deadly Sins” for piano and violoncello
- 2004 “Princess Isabella” piano musical for children
Recordings
- Hartmut Leistritz Solo LP 66.23802-01-2, Hamburg 1984
- Chamber Music by Jo Kondo , with the Ensemble l´art pour l´art, LC no. 6048 Cologne 1998
- "Serenade" by Mauricio Kagel , with the Ensemble l´art pour l´art LC-Nr.8492 Bremen 1999
- Works for cello and piano , sonatas by Alfred Schnittke (1978) and Sergej Prokofjew (op. 119) a. a., with Claudia Schwarze (violoncello), LC no. 11920, Erfurt / Berlin 2001
- TRIO TRITON , piano trios by Bedřich Smetana (op.15) and Dmitri Shostakowitsch (op.67), LC no. 11920, Erfurt / Berlin 2002
- Made durable , with Ensemble L'art pour l'art, Frankfurt 2010 ( Echo Klassik 2012 , German Record Critics ' Award 2012 )
Awards
- Scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation
- Prize of the Possehl Foundation Lübeck 1977
Web links
- Works by and about Hartmut Leistritz in the catalog of the German National Library
- Biography at set-studios
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Leistritz, Hartmut |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German pianist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 19, 1956 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Warendorf |