Michael Korstick

Michael Korstick (born April 30, 1955 in Cologne ) is a German pianist .

Michael Korstick (2014)

Life

Michael Korstick received his first piano lessons at the age of nine. At the age of eleven, he won first prize at “ Jugend musiziert ”. After graduating from high school, he studied with Jürgen Tröster in Cologne and with Hans Leygraf in Hanover . In 1974 he met the Russian pianist Tatiana Nikolayeva at a master class, with whom he worked again and again in the years that followed. He made his debut in 1975 with Beethoven's piano sonatas op.106 and op.111 .

In 1976 Korstick went to the USA and continued his education as a scholarship holder at the Juilliard School in New York . He also worked with Jeaneane Dowis at the Aspen Music Festival. In 1976 he made his New York debut with Beethoven's Hammerklavier Sonata op. 106 and the Diabelli Variations op. 120. In the following seven years he completed his studies at the Juilliard School with Sascha Gorodnitzki. As the winner of the German Music Council's “ Federal Selection of Concerts of Young Artists ”, he returned to Germany in 1983, where he began his regular concert career.

Korstick has been characterized by the Audiophile and Fono Forum as "one of the most important Beethoven interpreters of our time". In addition to 120 piano concertos, his repertoire includes a large number of solo works from all styles, including the cycle of all Beethoven's piano sonatas . He undertook numerous worldwide concert tours and played cyclical complete performances of the piano concertos by Beethoven, Brahms , Liszt , Rachmaninov , Bartók and Prokofiev .

Michael Korstick has produced more than 50 CD recordings for various labels, for which he was awarded the Echo Klassik 2005, the MIDEM Classical Award Cannes 2009 and six times, most recently in November 2014, the German Record Critics' Prize.

Since 2014 he has lived and worked in Linz , Austria, where he is a professor at the Anton Bruckner Private University.

Discography

OehmsClassics

• 2004 Ludwig van Beethoven : Piano Works Vol. 1 - Diabelli Variations op.120
• 2005 Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Vol. 2 - Sonatas 1, 2, 3
• 2006 Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Vol. 3 - Sonatas 4, 9, 10, 12
• 2006 Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Vol. 4 - Sonatas 5, 6, 7, 8
• 2007 Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Vol. 5 - Sonatas 11, 19, 20, 13, 14
• 2007 Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Vol. 6 - Sonata 15, Variations op.34, op.35
• 2008 Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Vol. 7 - Sonatas 16, 17, 18
• 2008 Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Vol. 8 - Sonatas 21, 22, 23
• 2008 Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Vol. 9 - Sonatas 24, 25, 26, 27, 28
• 2003 Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Vol. 10 - Sonata 29, Bagatelles op.126, Rondo op.129
• 1997 Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Vol. 11 - Sonatas 30, 31, 32
• 1997/2010 Robert Schumann : Kreisleriana op.16 , Arabesque op.18, Carnaval op.9
• 2018 Sergei Rachmaninoff : Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30, Variations on a Theme by Corelli, Op. 42, Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 36

cpo

• 2005 Darius Milhaud : Complete works for piano and orchestra
• 2007 Max Reger : Piano Concerto in F minor, Op. 114, Bach - Busoni : Piano Concerto in D minor, BWV 1052
• 2008/1997 Franz Liszt : Années de Pèlerinage I "Suisse", Sonata in B minor
• 2009 Franz Liszt: Années de Pèlerinage II "Italie"
• 2010 Franz Liszt: Années de Pèlerinage III + Venezia e Napoli
• 2009/2010 Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy : Songs without words (complete recording), Variations sérieuses
• 2011 Dmitri Kabalewski : Piano Concertos No. 1–4, Fantasy after Schubert D940, Rhapsody op. 75
• 2014 Franz Schubert : Piano Sonatas D664, D959, D960 + Moments Musicaux D780; Hungarian melody D817
• 2015 Franz Liszt: Harmonies Poétiques et Religieuses
• 2016 Alberto Ginastera : The piano work
• 2017 Dmitri Kabalewski: Complete Piano Sonatas
• 2018 César Franck : Prélude, Choral et Fugue; Prelude, Aria et Final; Violin Sonata (arranged for piano solo by Alfred Cortot )

Hänssler Classic

• 2007 Charles Koechlin : Piano Works Vol. 1 - "... des jardins enchantés ..."
• 2008 Charles Koechlin: Piano Works Vol. 2 - Les Heures persanes op.65
• 2008 Charles Koechlin: Offrande musicale sur le nom de BACH op.187
• 2009 Charles Koechlin: Piano Works Vol. 3 - "... des horizons lointains ..."
• 2011 Claude Debussy : Piano Music Vol. 1
• 2012 Claude Debussy: Piano Music Vol. 2
• 2013 Claude Debussy: Piano Music Vol. 3
• 2015 Claude Debussy: Piano Music Vol. 4
• 2018 Claude Debussy: Piano Music Vol. 5

Gramola

• 2013 Richard Strauss : Sonata for violin and piano op.18
• 2014 Iván Eröd : Sonatas for violin and piano
• 2014 Ludwig van Beethoven : Sonatas for piano and violin Vol. 1 - Sonatas No. 9.10 (op.47 Kreutzer Sonata , op.96)
• 2015 Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonatas for piano and violin Vol. 2 - Sonatas No. 1,2,3,8 (op. 12 No. 1-3, op. 30 No. 3)
• 2015 Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonatas for piano and violin Vol. 3 - Sonatas No. 4,5 (op.23, op.24 Spring Sonata )
• 2015 Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonatas for piano and violin Vol. 4 - Sonatas No. 6.7 (op. 30 No. 1,2)
• 2015/1999 Mussorgsky : Pictures at an Exhibition / Prokofiev : Piano Sonata No. 8 / Tchaikovsky : Doumka / Ljapunov : Lesghinka
• 2016 Franz Schubert: The Piano Trios
• 2017 Ludwig van Beethoven: Concerto for piano, violin, violoncello and orchestra in C major op.56
• 2018 Bohuslav Martinu : Concerto for violin, piano and orchestra

literature

• Jürgen Otten: The great pianists of today . Henschel-Verlag, Berlin / Leipzig 2009.
• Ingo Harden / Gregor Willmes: PIANIST profiles . Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel 2008.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Andreas Fasel: Soloists in the music business . September 24, 2005 ( welt.de [accessed January 8, 2020]).