Martin Stadtfeld
Martin Stadtfeld (born October 19, 1980 in Koblenz ) is a German pianist .
Life
Martin Stadtfeld grew up in Gackenbach in the Westerwald . In his childhood, Martin Stadtfeld took piano lessons from Hubertus Weimer. He made his concert debut at the age of nine and has been studying at the Frankfurt University of Music since he was 14 . His teacher there was the Russian-American professor Lev Natochenny .
In 2000 he passed his Abitur at the State Music High School Rhineland-Palatinate (Peter-Altmeier-Gymnasium Montabaur ).
Stadtfeld is under contract with Sony Classical .
He lives in tub with his wife and son .
Concerts
Martin Stadtfeld has performed with orchestras such as the Munich Philharmonic , the Academy of St Martin in the Fields , the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra , the Staatskapelle Dresden , the Vienna Symphony , the Czech Philharmonic in Prague and the Mozarteum Orchestra in Salzburg. From the 2006/07 to 2008/09 season, Martin Stadtfeld was the artist in the “Junge Wilde” series at the Dortmund Konzerthaus. He is a regular guest at major festivals such as the Salzburg Festival, the Rheingau Music Festival , the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival , the Lockenhaus Chamber Music Festival , the Ljubljana Festival, the Festival International Echternach, the Schubertiade in Schwarzenberg and Hohenems and the Menuhin Festival Gstaad. In 2010 he played at the National Day concert in Vienna.
Awards
- various prizes at the national youth music competition
- 1997: Winner of the " Nikolai Rubinstein " piano competition in Paris
- 2001: Winner of the “ Busoni Competition ” in Bolzano ; Prize for the Rhineland-Palatinate Art Prize
- 2002: First prize at the International Bach Competition in Leipzig
- 2004: ECHO Klassik Prize as “Young Artist of the Year” for his recording of the Goldberg Variations by Johann Sebastian Bach
- 2005: ECHO Klassik Prize for his CD Bach Pur as “solo recording of the year”.
- 2007: ECHO Klassik Prize for the concert recording of the year, JS Bach piano concertos by Johann Sebastian Bach .
- 2008: ECHO Klassik Prize for solo recording, 19th century music, Franz Schubert , sonatas.
Discography
- 2003: Debut CD Goldberg Variations by Johann Sebastian Bach. The recording received great praise in the press and landed on first place in the German classical music charts.
- 2004: Bach Pur (including the three-part inventions and the "Italian Concert" by Bach, as well as transcriptions by Ferruccio Busoni and Alexander Siloti ). This recording also reached the top of the German classical music charts.
- 2005: Piano Concertos No. 20 and 24 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (with the NDR Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Bruno Weil ).
- 2006: Small Pieces (with 14 preludes from Bach's Clavierbüchlein , 14 short pieces from the cycle Bunte Blätter by Robert Schumann , Bach's Toccata in D major (BWV 912) and Schumann's Toccata op. 7).
- 2006: J. S. Bach piano concertos (piano concertos No. 1, 2 and 5 by Johann Sebastian Bach with the Festival Strings Luzern under the direction of Achim Fiedler , as well as prelude and fugue in E flat minor and B flat minor by Johann Sebastian Bach, arrangement of the Adagio the oboe concerto in d minor by Alessandro Marcello , sonata op. 1 by Alban Berg and small piano pieces op. 19 by Arnold Schönberg ).
- 2007: Schubert: Piano Sonatas (Sonatas in G major D894 and in B flat major D960 by Franz Schubert ) (published September 14, 2007).
- 2008: JS Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier I (published October 17, 2008).
- 2009: The young Beethoven (published October 16, 2009).
- 2009: JS Bach: Viola Sonatas (with Jan Vogler , published on November 13, 2009).
- 2010: German Romanticism (including the cycle forest scenes by Robert Schumann and pieces by Franz Liszt and Richard Wagner , published on October 15, 2010).
- 2011: JS Bach: Piano Concerts, Vol. 2 (with the Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra Munich under the direction of Lorenz Nasturica, published on October 14, 2011).
- 2013: JS Bach: English Suites BWV 806-808 (published October 18, 2013).
- 2014: How beautiful the morning star shines - The young Bach (BWV 739, 565, 582, 903 and 992 as well as chorale prelude op.46a by Stefan Heucke , published on September 19, 2014).
- 2015: Schumann: Children's scenes and piano concerto op.54 (with the Hallé Orchestra under the direction of Mark Elder , published on February 13, 2015).
- 2015: Piano concertos No. 1 and 9 as well as 36 pieces from the London sketchbook KV 15 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (with the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg under Ivor Bolton , published on September 11, 2015).
- 2016: Chopin + (Chopin's Etudes op.10 combined with the pianist's own improvisations, published on November 4, 2016).
Quote
"For me, Bach is the starting point for all music that comes after."
Web links
- Martin Stadtfeld in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Martin Stadtfeld's website
- “The classical concert has to get back into the middle of society” - Interview with Martin Stadtfeld at Vanityfair.de
- Interview with Martin Stadtfeld at the Swiss classic portal Classicpoint.ch
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.derwesten.de/staedte/nachrichten-aus-herne-und-wanne-eickel/pianist-martin-stadtfeld-ist-in-wanne-heimisch-geworden-id9961420.html
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stadtfeld, Martin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German pianist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 19, 1980 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Koblenz |