Johannes Roloff

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Signature, 1991

Johannes Roloff (* 1957 in Berlin ) is a German pianist and arranger. He is the son of the pianist Helmut Roloff .

Live and act

Johannes Roloff started playing the piano at the age of seven. He took cello lessons from 1970 to 1975 and studied piano from 1977 to 1983 in Berlin and Munich. Concert tours have taken him to various cities in the Federal Republic of Germany and the GDR, to Japan, Canada and the Canary Islands. In addition to his pianistic activity, he composed theater and film music, e.g. B. for Witold Gombrowicz's “Operetta” (performed in the summer of 1987 in the Hebbel Theater in Berlin ) and for the cartoon “The Little Prince”, which was broadcast in December 1990 by ZDF. In April 1988 he played Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Berlin Symphony Orchestra in the Philharmonie. In January 1989, Roloff made a solo debut in the Philharmonic Chamber Music Hall with works by Bach , Berg , Weber and Prokofiev .

He then became known as the musical director and arranger of the comedy trio Geschwister Pfister , with whom he has been working since 1991. Roloff arranged the music for the operetta Im Weißen Rößl for the Berlin production by Christoph Marti in the Bar Every Vernunft . The arrangement was recognized as a short version by the Felix Bloch Erben publishing house.

In the 2009/10 season he is the musical director of the Swiss musical Bibi Balù at the St. Gallen Theater , in which Tobias Bonn ( Toni Pfister ) and Christoph Marti ( Ursli Pfister ) also participate.

Composer of film and stage music

  • 1987 play operetta by Witold Gombrowicz
  • 1990 cartoon The Little Prince

Discography

  • 1993 - Ursli Pfister - A Pure Joy
  • 1994 - In the white Rößl
  • 1995 - March for Glory
  • 1996 - Turn off the Bubble Machine
  • 1997 - The Great Space Swindle
  • 1999 - The Voice of Snow White
  • 2000 - On the Run, A Journey into Happiness
  • 2002 - Ursula West - Daughter of Country
  • 2002 - Have a Ball!
  • 2002 - Therapy pointless
  • 2005 - Ursula West - A Legend in my Time
  • 2008 - American Dreams - Ursli Pfister sings Randy Newman
  • 2001 - Ludwig van Beethoven : Piano Sonatas op.109, 110, 111 - recording of the concert in the Church of the Holy Cross, Berlin-Kreuzberg on November 25, 2001
  • 2005 - Johann Sebastian Bach : Goldberg Variations - recording of the concert in the Passionskirche, Berlin-Kreuzberg on January 15, 2005
  • 2006 - Joseph Haydn : Variations in F minor and Ludwig van Beethoven : Diabelli Variations - recording of the concert in the Passionskirche, Berlin-Kreuzberg on November 23, 2006

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kume Bijutsukan Tokyo (Ed.): Johannes Roloff Piano-Recircle. Program, April 5, 1991.
personal data
SURNAME Roloff, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pianist and arranger
DATE OF BIRTH 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin