Kiveli Dörken

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Kiveli Dörken (born July 17, 1995 in Düsseldorf ) is a German - Greek pianist . She is the younger sister of Danae Dörken .

Life

At the age of five, Kiveli Dörken learned to play the piano with Marina Kheifets at the Subito music school in Düsseldorf . She often performed as a duo with her sister Danae Dörken . From 2003 to 2012 she was taught by Karl-Heinz Kämmerling at the University of Music and Theater in Hanover , after his death with Lars Vogt .

At the age of five, Kiveli Dörken was the youngest finalist to win a prize at the “International Steinway Competition” in Hamburg. Awards and first prizes followed at the Grotrian-Steinweg competition in Braunschweig , the national youth music competition , the “International EPTA Competition” in Croatia and the International Piano Competition for the Rotary Youth Music Prize. She is a GEDOK scholarship holder , the “Werner Richard - Dr. Carl Dörken Foundation ”, the chamber music festival“ Tensions ”, the“ German Foundation for Music Life ”and the“ International Music Academy Liechtenstein ”.

She gave her first orchestral concert at the age of eight and has since performed regularly in Germany, France, Austria, Liechtenstein, Italy, Spain, Great Britain, Greece, China and the USA. In 2005 the TV station “ ARTE ” filmed them under the theme “... early practice” and in 2009 the WDR. In 2007 she played for the Dalai Lama in the Münsterhalle . In 2009 she played - at the invitation of the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben - in Washington, DC for Chancellor Angela Merkel .

Kiveli Dörken still often plays with her older sister Danae Dörken , who was also a student of Karl-Heinz Kämmerling.

In 2015, Kiveli Dörken and her sister Danae founded the Molyvos International Music Festival (MIMF) on the island of Lesbos , which has taken place annually since then.

Discography

  • 2013 International Music Academy in the Principality of Liechtenstein. Vol. 1. Composers: Rachmaninow, Rheinberger, Kapustin, Brahms, Paganini, Chatschaturjan, Dvořák, Sollima, Popper. Together with Sho Akamatsu, violin - Latica Aniä, cello - Levon Avagyan, piano - Kristaps Bergs, cello - Adrien Boisseau, viola - Andreas Domjanic, piano - Danae Dörken, piano - Mario Häring, piano - Benjamin Lai, cello - Marin Maras , Violin - Sara Plank, Violin - Nadja Reich, Violoncello - Astrig Siranossian , Violoncello - Kian Soltani , Violoncello - Payam Taghadossi, Violoncello - Zita Varga, Violoncello - Kristina Winiarski, Violoncello. Ars production.
  • 2018 Heimbach Chamber Music Festival 2015. Gershwin: 3 Preludes for saxophone & piano, + Poulenc: Sonata for horn, trumpet & trombone; Trio for oboe, piano & bassoon, Eychenne: Cantilene et Danse, + Lutoslawski: Partita for violin & piano together with Lars Vogt , Asya Fateyeva , Sybille Mahni, Peter Dörpinghaus. CAvi
  • 2018: Josef Suk: Piano Quartet No. 1, Dvorak: Piano Trio No. 2, together with Martin Helmchen, Antje Weithaas, Vicki Powell, Maximilian Hornung, Christian Tetzlaff. CAvi.
  • 2019: Ferdinand Ries: Sextet op.142 for harp, piano, clarinet, bassoon, horn, double bass; Trio for string trio WoO 70 No. 2, trio for violin, viola and violoncello in E minor WoO 70 No. 2, octet for piano, clarinet, horn, bassoon, violin, viola, cello and double bass in A flat major, op.128 with the Franz Ensemble. MDG.
  • 2020: Josef Suk: Piano Quintet in G minor Opus 8, Zivotem a snem (Experienced and Dreamed of) Opus 30 - Ten pieces for piano. Together with Christian and Tanja Tetzlaff, Florian Donderer, Timothy Ridout. Ars production.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Awards from Kiveli Dörken as a child ( Memento from December 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ The International Grotrian Piano Competition 2018. Accessed July 7, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Artists of the music department. Retrieved on July 7, 2019 (German).
  4. ^ Kiveli Dörken • Biography of pianists • C. Bechstein. Retrieved July 7, 2019 .
  5. ↑ PEOPLE BEHIND MIMF - MIMF . In: MIMF . ( molyvosfestival.com [accessed June 18, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Dörken, Kiveli
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Greek pianist
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1995
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf