Johanna Wiedenbach

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Johanna Wiedenbach (* 1953 in Seckenhausen near Bremen ) is a German pianist and music teacher at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater .

Life

Johanna Wiedenbach received her first piano lessons at the age of five, and at the age of eight she was supervised by Uwe Gronostay , so that at the age of eleven she was accepted into the class of Marianne Krasmann, who is still a student of Walter Gieseking , at the Bremen Conservatory was. There she met Eliza Hansen , who continued their pianistic traditions as a student of Edwin Fischer and Artur Schnabel . As Johanna Wiedenbach's pianistic skills were largely influenced by Eliza Hansen, she is now in the tradition of the most important piano teachers.

At the age of 16 she made her debut as a concert pianist with Mozart's Jeunehomme Concerto (KV 271) in Bremen, at the age of 18 she performed Frédéric Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor , became the national winner in the “Jugend Musiziert” competition and began her studies in the master class of Eliza Hansen. She received a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation and represented Germany with distinction at the "Interforum" in Fertöd / Hungary and Budapest in 1975 . In 1978 she was given a teaching assignment for piano at the Hamburg Conservatory, performed Mendelssohn's G minor piano concerto and attended a master class with Wilhelm Kempff in Positano . Before Johanna Wiedenbach took her concert exam at the Hamburg University of Music in 1980, she had already played the great piano concertos of Mozart and Beethoven in many large concert halls in Germany and other European countries with well-known orchestras and conductors. She continuously expanded her concert repertoire and added chamber music and song accompaniment .

Wiedenbach made records, radio and television recordings with harpsichord, piano and chamber music works from the Baroque , Classical , Romantic , Late Romantic and New Music periods . She has appeared as a pianist in films and television plays, for example with Gert Fröbe . Together with well-known singers and instrumentalists, she also gave a large number of music evenings, and she has also participated in a variety of literary and artistic presentations as a harpsichordist and pianist.

Music educational services

Johanna Wiedenbach teaches piano as a minor and major subject at the Hamburg University of Music. In 1995 she was appointed professor at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater . There she still teaches many students, with whom she regularly organizes highly regarded concerts. In addition to her teaching obligations at the Hamburg University, she also teaches internally. College of Music (short: ICoM). Furthermore, she teaches a large number of students in the pianistic elementary area, which is of great importance for the early training of the next generation of pianists. That is why she is always on the jury of the “Jugend Musiziert” or “Steinway” competitions in Hamburg.