Kyra Steckeweh

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Kyra Steckeweh (* 1984 in Bonn ) is a German pianist .

life and work

Steckeweh took piano lessons for the first time at the age of six. She achieved competitive successes at Jugend musiziert and at the Steinway Piano Competition and took master classes with Paul Badura-Skoda and Jura Margulis .

Steckeweh studied piano and instrumental pedagogy with Tomoko Ogasawara at the Freiburg University of Music and at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg with George Kern. In 2011 she completed her studies in Freiburg with a diploma examination. At the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg and the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, she also completed the school music and history courses with the first state examination in 2009/2010 . As part of a qualification position at the University of Music Freiburg 2018/2019, Steckeweh dealt with music editing practice for the historical-critical publication of works by female composers.

In addition to the standard repertoire for her instrument, Steckeweh especially plays the music of little-known female composers . With her concert activity, Steckeweh aims to make women's music perceptible as part of cultural heritage . In this context, she realized the documentary women composers together with filmmaker Tim van Beveren in 2018 . The film tells the story of four musicians who fought for their place in musical life in the 19th century: Fanny Hensel , Emilie Mayer , Lili Boulanger and Mel Bonis . The documentary won the New York Movie Awards.

In order to record the music of not famous female composers , Steckeweh often works with autographs because there are not always reliable music editions. In spring 2020, Steckeweh recorded the first recording of the Sonata in C minor by the composer Sophie Westenholz for Deutschlandfunk . There were no previous recordings of the composer from the time of the Viennese Classicism .

Steckeweh lives as a freelance pianist in Leipzig .

Discography (selection)

  • 2016: En dehors , solo album with piano works by Mélanie Bonis and Lili Boulanger
  • 2018: Vita Brevis - Ars Longa , solo album with piano works by Emilie Mayer and Fanny Hensel
  • 2019: Female composers , double album with piano works by Mélanie Bonis, Lili Boulanger, Emilie Mayer and Fanny Hensel

Filmography

  • 2018: female composers , tvbmedia productions, together with Tim van Bevern

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the artist. Retrieved May 3, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Female composers are completely underrepresented . In: BR-Klassik, February 15, 2019. Accessed May 3, 2020.
  3. ↑ What is not played . In: Der Spiegel, May 2, 2020. Retrieved May 3, 2020.
  4. ↑ Women composers: Finally playing more music by women. For example from these . In: Welt, May 11, 2019. Retrieved May 3, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Sick, Kyra
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pianist
DATE OF BIRTH 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn