Marcus Kretzer

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Marcus Kretzer

Marcus Kretzer (born May 9, 1965 in Hilden ) is a German pianist and piano teacher .

Career

Marcus Kretzer spent his childhood and youth in Solingen , where he grew up in a musical family home. At the age of seven he received his first piano lessons, and when he was eight he wanted to become a concert pianist. He studied with the Czech pianist and music teacher Drahomir Toman , who promoted Kretzer's musical development until 1986. After finishing school, Kretzer studied from 1986 to 1988 at the Cologne University of Music and Dance with Aloys Kontarsky . From 1988 he continued his studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg , completed an additional course in cultural management there with a diploma in 1993 and completed his musical training in 1996 with the concert exam , during which he a. a. interpreted the 3rd Piano Concerto by Rachmaninoff in the Laeiszhalle . Kretzer studied ancient history at the University of Hamburg from 1996 to 1998 and at the same time musicology at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater.

Kretzer has been giving recitals and piano concerts since 1979. He works in Germany and abroad.

Artistic work

Kretzer gave his first public recital in Germany at the age of 14; He made his foreign debut at the age of 17 at the Rudolfinum in Prague . He took part in national and international piano competitions and won eight first and several second prizes. Kretzer has given concerts in Europe, North and South Africa and Central America. He played with the Arcata Stuttgart orchestras, the Bergisches Kammerorchester, the Bergische Symphoniker , the Hamburg Bachorchester , the Hamburg Symphoniker , the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra , the Magdeburg Philharmonic , the Orquestra Sinfónica Nacional de Cuba , the Orquestra Sinfónica Nacional de Guatemala , the Philharmonic of Nations , the Sinfonia Varsovia , the State Orchestra Braunschweig and the Symfonieorkest Eindhoven .

Kretzer performed at the Cubadisco (2002 and 2003), the International Eisteddfod in South Africa (1985), the European Classic Festival Ruhr (2003 and 2008), the Mosel Music Festival (2000 and 2008), the Rhenish Piano Summer (2000 and 2008) Salzburg Festival (1992) and the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival (1988, 1989 and 1993).

His other artistic activities include song accompaniment and chamber music . Kretzer was the piano accompanist at recitation concerts with Alfred Biolek , Norbert Blüm and the actors Richy Müller (in December 2003 with the Carnival of the Animals in the Chamber Music Hall of the Berlin Philharmonic ) and Michael Trischan . Kretzer had radio and television appearances for ARTE ETERNA CUBA, CUBA-TV, N3 and NDR4 , Radio Allegro South Africa, Radio Hamburg , Radio Schleswig-Holstein , RTL , SAT1 and WDR . In 1992 he appeared in the music show Achtung, Klassik! of the ZDF .

As a member of Lions Club International , he regularly gives benefit concerts.

Pianistics and repertoire

Through his training and masterclasses with Tatjana Nikolajewa , Svjatoslav Richter , Nelson and Aquiles Delle Vigne, Homero Francesch , Yara Bernette and Fausto Zadra , his pianistics unites the Eastern European schools of Theodor Leschetizky and Heinrich Neuhaus with the South American tradition of Vincenzo Scaramuzza .

Kretzer's programmatic focus is on the works of Johann Sebastian Bach , also in the orchestral versions of Ferruccio Busoni , on the sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti , the sonatas and piano concertos by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven , on Frédéric Chopin , Franz Liszt , Isaac Albéniz , Claude Debussy and Sergei Rachmaninoff . His preoccupation with new music is expressed in his recording of the piano work by Rudolf Halaczinsky . Following the romantic tradition, he created paraphrases about Argentine tangos and transcriptions of classical orchestral works for one, two and four pianos - the latter he performed in 2006 and 2008 at concerts and a tour of Germany with Olivier Cazal (France), Anna Malikova (Russia) and Nami Ejiri (Japan) as a piano quartet Kla4 .

pedagogy

Coinciding with his Cologne study taught at the Kretzer Jugendmusik- and Art School of the city of Remscheid, where he and the Department initiated piano. From 1998 to 2001 he was a professor at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater . Kretzer is a lecturer at the Institute for Music at the Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences .

Since 1989 Kretzer has given master classes a. a. at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, at the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana / Cuba, Edna Manley College for Music in Kingston / Jamaica, Conservatorio de los tres Mundos in Granada / Nicaragua, Colegio San Augustín in David / Panamá, Conservatorio Nacional de Música in Santo Domingo / Dominican Republic. His students include Natasha García-Guinot, Francisco Paredes-Llanes, Nora Maria Lastre and Madarys Morgan Verdecia.

Awards (selection)

  • 2002: Diploma de Reconocimiento from the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana / Cuba
  • 1998: Cultural scholarship from the Konrad Adenauer Foundation , Berlin
  • 1996: 1st prize “Primo Premio Assoluto” at the “7 ° Concorso Pianistico Internazionale” in Rome
  • 1995: 1st prize at the international piano competition “Concours Musical de France” in Paris
  • 1994: 1st prize at the international piano competition "Cittá di Marsala" in Sicily
  • 1993: “Masefield” scholarship from the Alfred Toepfer Foundation FVS , Hamburg
  • 1993: Sponsorship award from the Munich Concert Society
  • 1992: LIONS CLUB INTERNATIONAL scholarship holder
  • 1990: Scholarship from the Zeit Foundation , Hamburg
  • 1984: 1st prize at the national youth music competition in Nuremberg with an additional performance bonus
  • 1983: 1st prize at the Steinway competition in Hamburg

Discography (selection)

  • Works by Bach and Liszt, MTM 2005
  • The piano work by Rudolf Halaczinsky, RealSound 1999
  • Live in Rome, Generali 1996

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Marcus Kretzer, piano short biography. Retrieved February 1, 2014
  2. ↑ Pedro de la Hoz, Cumbres alemanas. ( Memento of the original from February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Granma Internacional ( Memento of the original from May 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , May 13, 2003 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.granma.cu @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.granma.cu
  3. ↑ Pedro de la Hoz, A pianist in a class of its own. Kretzer: Taste and control between Pollini and Argerich . In: Granma , April 30, 2002 (PDF, 202 kB)
  4. ↑ Four piano concerts 1050 meters underground in a coal mine.Retrieved on January 26, 2014
  5. ^ Bach in mixed doubles Concert review in Trierischer Volksfreund from August 25, 2008. Last accessed on January 27, 2014.
  6. ↑ Fireworks on four pianos. Concert review in Neue Ruhr Zeitung on August 18, 2008. Last accessed on February 1, 2014.
  7. ↑ - Literature meets Classical - Event information. Conductors.de. Retrieved February 1, 2014
  8. ↑ Interview with Marcus Kretzer on Cuban National Television . youtube.com. Retrieved September 11, 2012.
  9. ↑ Attention, Classic ZDF yearbook. Retrieved January 26, 2014
  10. ↑ Great pianist with a big heart ( Memento of the original from February 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. LION archive, issue 10/10/12, p. 66, (PDF 4.7 MB) Retrieved on February 3, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lions.de
  11. ^ Rolf-Dieter Diehl, sorcerer of diabolical enchantment . In: Cellesche Zeitung , April 11, 2011 (PDF 1.4 MB)
  12. ↑ Marcus Kretzer, piano. Accessed January 26, 2014
  13. ^ Official website of Natasha Garcia-Guinot
  14. ^ ISA . Isauniversidaddelasartes.wordpress.com. May 27, 2011. Retrieved June 18, 2012.
  15. ↑ Ciclo International de Jovenos . victorrebullida.blogspot.de. February 20, 2009. Retrieved June 18, 2012.
  16. ↑ Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía . escuelasuperiordemusicareinasofia.es. 2010. Retrieved July 14, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Kretzer, Marcus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pianist
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Hilden