Ragna Schirmer

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Pianist Ragna Schirmer

Ragna Schirmer (* 1972 in Hildesheim ) is a German pianist . She lives in Halle (Saale) .

Life

From 1991 Ragna Schirmer studied with Karl-Heinz Kämmerling at the Hanover University of Music and Theater . From 1993 she continued her studies in Paris with Bernardringenissen . In 1995 she completed her studies with a diploma (with top marks), and in 1999 she completed her soloist training with the concert exam. Since then she has participated in several master classes. Ragna Schirmer has been professor of piano at the University of Music and Performing Arts Mannheim for ten years since 2001 and is now promoting young talent on behalf of the Francke Foundations in Halle . Ragna Schirmer was a scholarship holder of the German Music Council and the German National Academic Foundation . She is the only pianist to date to have won a Bach Prize twice at the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition in Leipzig (1992 and 1998). Her first CD was a recording of Johann Sebastian Bach's Goldberg Variations in 2000 . These and other CDs have received awards in specialist journals. In 2010 she was artist in residence in Heidelberg . In 2012 she was honored with the Handel Prize of the City of Halle, awarded by the Handel House Foundation . A focus of her artistic work is the preoccupation with the life and work of Clara Schumann . In 2006, the project “I want to laugh before the pain of death” was created, in which Ragna Schirmer and the actor Dominique Horwitz talk in sound and words about the fertile and difficult relationship between Robert and Clara. In 2015, around the 175th wedding anniversary of the Schumanns, the recording “Love in Variations” was released - a reminiscence of the musical messages interwoven in tones between Clara, Robert and Johannes Brahms. In 2018 the play "Clara - a game for Ragna Schirmer and Puppen" was premiered at the Puppet Theater in Halle . In 2019 she received - together with the musicologist Janina Klassen - the Robert Schumann Prize of the city of Zwickau .

For the big Clara Schumann anniversary year 2019 (200th birthday), the pianist decided to do something very special: After having watched all of Clara Schumann's concert programs over months, they should now be heard as many as possible in their original locations . Ragna Schirmer takes the audience back in time to the 19th century and pays tribute to the most famous pianist to this day.

Discography

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ MDR Figaro ( Memento from August 15, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Carsten Dürer: Creative added value from experience: Ragna Schirmer and her CD projects . In: Piano News . tape 1 , 2014, ISSN  1434-3592 , p. 32-36 .
  3. ↑ Stage hall: CLARA - A GAME FOR RAGNA SCHIRMER & DOLLS. Retrieved October 1, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Schumann Prize for Ragna Schirmer and Janina Klassen. Süddeutsche Zeitung , April 12, 2019, accessed on August 14, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Ragna Schirmer on the 200th birthday of Clara Schumann - In the mirror of a power woman. Accessed October 1, 2019 (German).
  6. ^ SWR2, SWR2: The pianist Ragna Schirmer. Retrieved October 1, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Schirmer, Ragna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pianist
DATE OF BIRTH 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Hildesheim