Heinz Lengersdorf

Heinz Lengersdorf (born November 4, 1966 in Erkelenz ) is a German pianist of classical music .

Career

In 1976 he began taking piano lessons from a civil servant amateur musician. Four years later he was accepted as a young student in the piano class of Rudolf Dohm at the Cologne University of Music, Aachen department , without having had long lessons from a qualified piano teacher. He made his concert debut as a soloist in 1982 with a piano recital.

In 1988 studies with B. Ebert at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media and Roberto Szidon at the Robert Schumann University in Düsseldorf . After graduating as a certified instrumental teacher and in the artistic training class at the Hanover University of Music, Lengersdorf passed his concert exam in 1996.

In 1997 his first solo CD "Sonatina Carmen" was released with works by Mendelssohn, Chopin, Debussy, Scarlatti and Busoni. With his brother and violinist Jörg Lengersdorf he produced several CD recordings with sonatas by Beethoven, Mozart a. a. as well as the CD "Viennese Secrets" with works by F. Kreisler. Lengersdorf was the first German pianist to record three Horowitz transcriptions ("The Stars and Stripes", Carmen Variations and Liszt's 19th Hungarian Rhapsody). For the NDR he took a. a. the notorious cello sonata by Rachmoninov for pianists. Further solo CDs followed in 2006 and 2007.

As a chamber musician, Lengersdorf has given several world premieres of new music (e.g. Kost, Kurt Hopstein ) and has given more concerts with members of the famous Kuss Quartet and the Berlin Philharmonic as well as some of the first prizewinners of international violin competitions such as Ara Malikan, Stefan Milenkovich, Bogdan Dragus and among others also Mariusz Pathyra.

Heinz Lengersdorf lives in Neustadt am Rübenberge near Hanover , where he also teaches at the music school.

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SURNAME	Lengersdorf, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German pianist
DATE OF BIRTH	4th November 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH	Erkelenz