Karl-Heinz Kämmerling

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Karl-Heinz Kämmerling (2007)

Karl-Heinz Kämmerling (born May 6, 1930 in Dessau ; † June 14, 2012 in Hanover ) was a German piano teacher .

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Kämmerling studied in Leipzig with Anton Rohden and Hugo Steurer. He later taught as a professor of piano at the Hanover University of Music and Theater and at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg and, since 2004, as a visiting professor at the Zagreb University of Music , Croatia .

Important pianists emerged from Kämmerling's classes, such as Valentina Babor , Markus Becker , Danae Dörken , Kiveli Dörken , Thomas Duis , Severin von Eckardstein , Elfrun Gabriel, Bernd Goetzke , Moto Harada , Anastasia Huppmann , Igor Levit , Kristin Merscher , Alice Sara Ott , Mona Asuka Ott , Peter Ovtcharov , Sophie Pacini , Herbert Schuch , Lisa Smirnova , Lars Vogt or Gerhard Wöllstein .

As one of the world's most renowned piano teachers, Kämmerling has given master classes in Europe, Asia and the USA. His students have received over 100 national and international prizes and awards at major piano competitions. 21 of its graduates are professors in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. He was a co-founder, board member and for 32 years, from 1979 to 2010, artistic director of the International Music Academy for Soloists (IMAS). He also acted as a juror in the most important international piano competitions, for example the Leeds Competition, the Arthur Rubinstein Competition in Tel Aviv, the Anton Rubinstein Competition in Dresden, the International Chopin Competition in Warsaw and competitions in Brussels, Moscow, Munich, Leipzig, Beijing, Hamamatsu, Salt Lake City.

Kämmerling was the founder and long-time president of the European Piano Teachers Association Germany, co-editor of the magazine “Üben und Musiegen”, also a long-time member of the musicians 'commission at the DAAD and chairman of the musicians' commission of the German Study Foundation as well as a member of the Institute for Research on Talent in Music at the University of Paderborn . He often worked on publications for the publishers Bosse and Schott.

Recognitions and awards

Kämmerling received the Art Prize of Lower Saxony, in 1999 the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany and in 2000 the Great Decoration of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria (1952) . In addition, since 2005 he has been an honorary member of the German Music Council .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prof. Karl-Heinz Kämmerling is 80 years old. Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media, April 30, 2010, accessed on April 28, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Andrea Fink: Big trees need time to grow ... Obituary for Karl-Heinz Kämmerling. nmz , November 2012, accessed April 28, 2019 .
  3. ↑ IMAS booklet (PDF), p. 9.
  4. ↑ IMAS brochure on the 40th anniversary in 2018 (PDF), p. 38.
personal data
SURNAME Kämmerling, Karl-Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German piano teacher
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Dessau
DATE OF DEATH June 14, 2012
Place of death Hanover