Peter Adrian Grauer

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Peter Adrian Grauer (born April 20, 1969 in Târgu Mureș , Romania ) is a German-Hungarian concert pianist and piano teacher

Peter Adrian Grauer

Career

Grauer received his first piano lessons at the age of six at the music school for gifted students in his hometown of Târgu Mureș. At a young age he gave his first concerts on Romanian radio and television and was invited to studio recordings. At the age of 14 he won first prize in the Romanian competition "Ciprian Porumbescu".

In 1983 he moved to Germany and settled in Aachen , where he graduated from the Anne Frank Gymnasium in 1989 . Even during his high school years, he was a young student in Professor Pavel Gililov's class at the Cologne University of Music . By taking part in international master classes (1986–1994) with Zoltán Kocsis , György Cziffra , Eliza Hansen , Christoph Eschenbach , Karl-Heinz Kämmerling and Rudolf Buchbinder , among others , he laid the foundation for his career as a concert pianist.

In addition to chamber music and song accompaniment evenings in German concert halls, Grauer has performed in other European countries, in America and in Asia. The highlights included a concert as part of the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival (1994), a Japan tour with a total of ten concerts (1999) and two concert series in the United States (2009 and 2011).

Peter Grauer's repertoire includes different musical epochs. The focus is on the works of Beethoven , Chopin , Grieg , Liszt and Bartók .

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