Henriette Gärtner

Henriette Gärtner (* 1975 in Freudenstadt ) is a German pianist .

Live and act

Henriette Gärtner was born in Freudenstadt and began playing the piano at the age of three. Two years later she gave her first major concert in Stuttgart . She grew up in the district of Unterschwandorf in the community of Neuhausen ob Eck and graduated from the Martin-Heidegger-Gymnasium in Meßkirch .

Accompanied by the renowned “Festival Strings Lucerne” chamber orchestra, the eight-year-old attracted international attention in 1983 when she performed at the Lucerne Festival . At that time, the pianist, now known in Germany as a child prodigy, also gave concerts with the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra at the music festival in Colmar . In the following years, Henriette Gärtner won a number of piano competitions, most recently the International Masterplayers Competition in Lugano, Switzerland . She also practiced the sport of twirling , in which she was German champion in the solo freestyle discipline in 1995, after having won championships in the youth and duo categories in 1993 and 1994.

Henriette Gärtner supplemented her musical training with interpretation and master classes with personalities such as Rudolf Buchbinder, Viktor Merzhanov, Karl-Heinz Kämmerling , Christian Zacharias, Thomas Lange, Leslie Howard, Sergio Perticaroli, Günter Reinhold and Peter Feuchtwanger.

From 2001 to 2005 Henriette Gärtner studied at the Accademia Pianistica Internazionale Incontri col Maestro in Imola with Leonid Margarius, a student of Regina Horowitz . She successfully completed the academy with a diploma. In addition, she was accepted into the Scuola Pianistica di perfezionamento L. Margarius in 2003.

Henriette Gärtner's concert activities have taken him to the musical centers of Germany , Switzerland , France , Italy , England , Austria , as well as to Monte Carlo , the USA , South America and South Africa . There were also invitations from well-known orchestras with conductors such as Karl Münchinger , Rudolf Baumgartner , Petr Altrichter, Thomas Kalb, Richard Schumacher, Thomas Koncz, Howard Griffiths , Elyakum Shapirra, Gerd Albrecht and Edouard de Stoutz. Henriette Gärtner was repeatedly invited by the European Beethoven Society to London in St. Martin in the Fields, in 2008 in St. James's Piccadilly and in 2012 by the Chopin Society with piano recitals in Westminster Cathedral Hall. Henriette Gärtner also played in 2008 for the Associazione Mozart Italia and the Robert and Clara Schumann Society in Leipzig .

She is a scholarship holder of the Art Foundation Baden-Württemberg , the Foundation for International Masterclasses for Music Zurich, the International Music Meeting Center Haus Marteau in Lichtenberg and the German-Italian Society in Como / Italy.

In addition to radio broadcasts (such as in 2008 on the cultural radio station SWR2 ), there were also some television portraits such as B. Meeting point television tower , Anneliese Rothenberger introduces , child prodigies and young interpreters with Henriette Gärtner. In 2003 Henriette Gärtner's third CD Contrasts was released with works by Bach / Busoni, Schubert, Chopin, Paderewski and Franck, among others. Since 2004, there have also been DVD releases of concerts in Stuttgart and London.

Not only masterful, but ingenious , so the "Pope of Critics" Joachim Kaiser (probably the most influential German-speaking music, literary and theater critic in the second half of the 20th century) about Henriette Gärtner's latest CD LUNA , in which he describes the so-called moonlight sonata as a fantastic one Characterized by a drama that made a deep impression on him. He thanks the pianist for a not only masterful, but brilliantly direct interpretation .

Out of interest and joy in teaching, Henriette Gärtner also studied sports science and Romance studies at the University of Konstanz and completed her studies with the 2nd state examination. In the meantime, she deepened in the field of music medicine / music physiology and in 2000 wrote her thesis in the field of movement physiology on the subject of comparative biomechanical and sports medicine investigations into the stress and strain of concert pianists and competitive athletes.

In addition to her international career as a pianist, Henriette Gärtner did her doctorate at the University of Konstanz in the field of movement physiology / biomechanics on the subject of the connection between sound, force and kinematics in piano playing - shown in works from piano literature (Dr. rer. Nat.) And concluded completed her doctorate with the overall grade summa cum laude (excellent) in July 2011.

In August 2013, Henriette Gärtner's dissertation was published as a book with the title Sound, Power and Kinematics in Piano Playing with the subtitle About their connection demonstrated in works from piano literature by the Wißner publishing house . The book includes a CD with audio samples.

Henriette Gärtner currently (2016) has a teaching position for music and medicine at the Trossingen University of Music .

Discography

CD

• The pianist with works by…. 1996.
• Fascination with music. 1998.
• Contrasts. 2002.
• Imperial. 2009.
• Baba Yaga. 2011.
• Luna. 2012.
• Anima. 2014.
• Spectrum. 2015.
• Key magic. 2017.
• Stella. 2018.
• Miniatures. 2019.

DVD

• Henriette Gärtner Live in London 2006 St. Martin in the Fields.
• Henriette Gärtner Live in Stuttgart 2007.
• Henriette Gärtner Live in London 2008.
• Henriette Gärtner Live in London 2010 at St. John's Smith Square.

Web links

• Website by Henriette Gärtner

Individual evidence

1. ↑ www.henriette-gaertner.com/vita
2. ↑ Chronicle of German Masters in Twirling ( Memento of the original from March 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Gerald Deckart, Playing the piano is her sport , Rotary Magazin 1/2014  
3. ↑ [1]
4. ↑ [2] (PDF; 148 kB)
5. ↑ Newspaper article from September 5, 2011, author: Alfred Thiele. (PDF; 83 kB)
6. ↑ http://www.mh-trossingen.de/hochschule/lösungen/nach-fachgruppen/fachgruppe/21.html