Michael Heise (conductor)
Michael Heise (born July 22, 1940 in Berlin ) is a German conductor , pianist , musicologist and music teacher.
Life
Michael Heise began playing the piano in early childhood. Between 1953 and 1966 he already made frequent public appearances as a young pianist in Berlin and West Germany. In 1954, at the age of 14, he was awarded the 1st Steinway Piano Competition .
After graduating from the altsprachlich humanist school he started in 1958 in Berlin at the Free University and the former University of Music musicology, philosophy to study conducting and piano. In 1963 he passed the examination in the main subjects of conducting and piano with distinction. In the same year he got his first engagement as a solo coach at the Deutsche Oper Berlin .
From 1966 to 1972 Michael Heise worked as a conductor in Mannheim and Braunschweig , and gave piano concerts. After his return to Berlin in 1972, he mainly worked as a conductor in the ballet department at the Deutsche Oper.
From 1976 guest performances as a conductor and pianist took him to European countries, to the USA, and often to the Soviet Union. There he gave z. B. Concerts with the Philharmonic of Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg Philharmonic ), Tallinn and Vilnius . Among other things, he played the Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in A minor Op. 54 (1845) by Robert Schumann , in which he accompanied himself as his own soloist .
In addition, from 1983 he worked intensively on the piano works of Johann Sebastian Bach . In 1996 he played the entire Well-Tempered Clavier on three evenings in the concert hall of the University of Music .
As a conductor, he worked with the exceptional young pianist Mark Ehrenfried (* 1991) in 1999 when he conducted a celebrated concert by him in the sold-out Meistersaal in Berlin . The musically brilliant expressiveness of the young pianist prompted Michael Heise to arrange for him another solo piano concerto in Fichtenwalde.
On Heise's initiative, the Kulturverein Fichtenwalde eV was founded in 1986 in the town of the same name. Through the annual Fichtenwalder Bach Days , which took place until 2003 , the association became known beyond local borders. With the dissolution of the association in 2004, the Bach Days concerts, which were only moderately attended anyway, were canceled.
Fonts
- My approach to Bach. Discussion of the piano cycles. Heise, Berlin 2000.
Discography
- Johann Sebastian Bach : All solo piano works , 22 CDs
Individual evidence
- ↑ welt.de of October 25, 1999: "Wunderkind...", It whispers through the hall , accessed on June 25, 2016
- ↑ PNN: No more music in the Hans-Grade-Haus Fichtenwalder Kulturverein dissolves with today's date
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Heise, Michael |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German conductor, pianist, musicologist and music teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 22, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |