Martin Dörrie

Martin Dörrie (* 1952 in Hildesheim ; † June 14, 2006 in Hanover ) was a German piano teacher.

Born in Hildesheim, Lower Saxony, his school days were already characterized by intensive preoccupation with music. After graduating from high school, in 1971 he began studying piano with Karl-Heinz Kämmerling at the Hanover University of Music and Drama , one of the most important piano music schools in the world . He was a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation and won prizes as a pianist at the renowned competitions in Santander, Geneva, Essen and Bonn. After obtaining the state music teacher examination in 1975, he passed the concert exam in 1978, which was followed by a year in Paris with Vlado Perlemuter . Dörrie died of leukemia in 2006.

At the age of 31, Dörrie became a professor at the Hanover University of Music and Theater. In 1996 he was also appointed to the position of didactics and methodology of piano playing. His close friendships with composers such as the Israeli André Hajdu led to an extremely fruitful and creative activity as a piano teacher, so Dörrie's students premiered educational compositions by Hajdu. Dörrie and his students paid tribute to the classics of composed piano pedagogy by repeatedly having his piano class play complete performances such as Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier (both volumes). Many of his students, among them Justus Zeyen , who became known as Thomas Quasthoff's piano accompanist , became successful pianists.

In addition to his artistic and educational commitment, Dörrie took on voluntary tasks, for example he was a member of the board of the German Tonkünstlerverband Niedersachsen for many years.