Heidrun Holtmann

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Heidrun Holtmann (2015)

Heidrun Holtmann (born October 18, 1961 in Münster ) is a German pianist .

Life

Holtmann's first piano teacher was Eleonore Jäger, who she taught in her hometown from 1966 to 1970.

In 1970 she became a young student at the Hochschule für Musik in Detmold . Until her exams (summa-cum-laude) she remained a student of Renate Kretschmar-Fischer . In addition to this training, she studied with Nikita Magaloff in Geneva in 1978 and with Wladimir Aschkenasi in Lucerne in 1982 . In 1979 she was awarded second prize at the first Géza Anda competition in Zurich and first prize in 1982. In the following years she gave concerts in numerous countries. For example, she played the second part of Johann Sebastian Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier at the Goethe Institutes in Pakistan and India .

Repertoire and reception

After Heidrun Holtmann had won first prize in the Géza Anda competition, she was soon considered a high-ranking pianist who impressed both with the seriousness of her programs and her interpretations. A number of performances could be recorded, albeit with a record label of limited reach, so that the journalistic response remained low.

While her recording debut with Bach's Goldberg Variations seems somewhat reserved and the interpretation of Franz Schubert's later B flat major sonata has little internal dynamics, recordings of Schumann's Carnaval and his famous Kreisleriana as well as a selection of the Preludes by Chopin and Scriabin show Holtmann's sound sense and balance. The recordings reveal an individual, not ostensibly rhetorical analysis of the compositional fine drawing, which was always developed from the music.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical information from: Ingo Harden, Gregor Willmes, PianistenProfile 600 performers: Their biography, their style, their recordings , Heidrun Holtmann, Bärenreiter, Kassel 2008, p. 319
  2. ↑ Ingo Harden, Gregor Willmes, PianistenProfile 600 performers: their biography, their style, their recordings , Heidrun Holtmann, Bärenreiter, Kassel 2008, p. 319
personal data
SURNAME Holtmann, Heidrun
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pianist
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster