Oliver Drechsel

Oliver Drechsel (born May 10, 1973 in Langenfeld (Rhineland) ) is a German concert pianist and composer .

After taking lessons from his mother, the concert pianist Ruth Drechsel-Püster , he studied at the Cologne University of Music with Roswitha Gediga-Glombitza and Pavel Gililov . Master classes, among others with Peter Feuchtwanger , Karl-Heinz Kämmerling and the Alban Berg Quartet , complemented this training, which he completed in 1998 with the concert exam. In the same year he published his debut CD " Jürg Baur - Das Klavierwerk" and received the cultural award from the Sparkassen-Kulturstiftung Rheinland (sponsorship award). For his compositions he received a. a. 1st prize at the 2007 Siegburg Composition Competition .

Drechsel is dedicated to the reproduction of 19th century piano music on original historical instruments from the Dohr collection (Cologne). He is currently making the complete recordings of the piano works of the important romanticist Friedrich Kiel and the early romanticist Christian Heinrich Rinck . Most of these are world premiere recordings.

In addition to numerous solo appearances at home and abroad (including in the "Best of NRW" series) as well as radio recordings and CD productions, another focus of his pianistic work is chamber music , in which he regularly works with the cellist Dagmar Spengler gives a concert. In 2003 Drechsel was artist in residence at the Rinck Festival in Cologne.

Oliver Drechsel teaches music and mathematics at the Otto Hahn Gymnasium in Monheim am Rhein, where he lives, and piano at the Cologne University of Music .

Most of his work (CDs, books, sheet music) is published by Verlag Dohr .

Discography

• on concert grand Ibach :
  • Jürg Baur: Das Klavierwerk, Telos Records 024, 1998.
• on Steinway & Sons concert grand piano :
  • Jürg Baur: with a changing key. Piano songs (together with Matthias Güdelhöfer, bass baritone), Verlag Dohr, DCD018, 2001.
  • dialogo. Works of the 20th century for violoncello and piano by Sergej Prokofjew , Buxton Orr and Benjamin Britten (together with Dagmar Spengler , violoncello), Verlag Dohr DCD017, 2001.
  • fantasia. Piano fantasies by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach , Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Frédéric Chopin and Sergej Rachmaninoff , Verlag Dohr DCD007, 2001.
  • Christian Gottlob Neefe : XII Piano Sonatas, Ludwig van Beethoven : Kurfürsten-Sonaten, Verlag Dohr DCD027, 2006/07.
• on concert grand Theodor Stöcker , Berlin 1868 ( Eller House ):
  • Friedrich Kiel, Das Klavierwerk Vol. 1, Verlag Dohr DCD009, 2002.
  • Friedrich Kiel, Das Klavierwerk Vol. 2 (together with Wilhelm Kemper), Verlag Dohr DCD011, 2003.
  • Friedrich Kiel, Das Klavierwerk Vol. 3 (together with Wilhelm Kemper), Verlag Dohr, DCD013, 2004.
  • Friedrich Kiel, Das Klavierwerk Vol. 4 (together with Wilhelm Kemper), Verlag Dohr, DCD023, 2007.
• on fortepiano Christian Erdmann Rancke , Riga 1825 (Eller House):
  • Johann Christian Heinrich Rinck, Das Klavierwerk Vol. 1 (Verlag Dohr, DCD018, 2002)
  • Johann Christian Heinrich Rinck, Das Klavierwerk Vol. 2 (together with Egino Klepper ; Verlag Dohr, DCD019, 2003)
  • Johann Wilhelm Wilms , Works for Solo Piano Vol. 1 (Verlag Dohr, DCD024, 2004)
  • Johann Wilhelm Wilms, Works for piano solo Vol. 2 with speaker Claus Biederstaedt (Verlag Dohr, DCD029, 2007)
• on clavichord Wilhelm Heinrich Bethmann 1799 (copy JC Neupert, Bamberg 1999 (Eller House)):
  • Christian Gottlob Neefe: XII Piano Sonatas, Ludwig van Beethoven: Kurfürsten-Sonaten, Verlag Dohr DCD026, 2006/07.

Fonts

• as author:
  • Jürg Baur: The piano work. Verlag Dohr 1998 ( ISBN 3-925366-60-1 )
• as editor:
  • Jürg Baur: Three early piano pieces (1943/60). Verlag Dohr 1998 (ISMN M-2020-0507-1)
  • Jürg Baur: Catalog raisonné. Verlag Dohr 2000 ( ISBN 3-925366-59-8 )
  • Jürg Baur: Annotations on Music. Selected writings, essays and lectures. Verlag Dohr 2003 ( ISBN 3-936655-01-4 )
  • Johann Wilhelm Wilms: Piano Works Vol. 1 (with CD). Monuments of Rhenish Music Vol. 25, Verlag Dohr 2005 (ISMN M-2020-1120-1)
  • Daniel Friedrich Eduard Wilsing : Sonata for piano and violin (1832). First edition. Verlag Dohr 2005 (ISMN M-2020-1160-7)

Web links

• Literature by and about Oliver Drechsel in the catalog of the German National Library
• own web presence