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Roland Pröll (2006)

Roland Pröll (born June 11, 1949 in Unna ) is a German pianist and music teacher .

education

Roland Pröll received his first piano lessons at the age of 5 and began studying at the Dortmund Conservatory, which later became the music academy , at the age of 11 in the class of Dieter Wollert. There he passed his diploma with distinction and then moved to Paris to the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique , where he mainly studied with Pierre Sancan , but also worked with Yvonne Loriod , Aldo Ciccolini , Vlado Perlemuter and Raymond Trouard . In addition to and after his piano studies, he also studied composition (with Olivier Messiaen ), conducting, chamber music and solfège . He studied musicology at the Sorbonne and graduated with a Doctorat d'Université (equiv. Magister ). During his stay in Paris he was also a private student of Arthur Rubinstein , Géza Anda and Swjatoslaw Richter . He won numerous first prizes in international competitions, mainly as a pianist, but also as a conductor, composer and chamber musician.

music

Roland Pröll gives concerts worldwide as a soloist, chamber music and with an orchestra. He played u. a. at the Sydney Opera House , the Berlin Philharmonic , the Salle Gaveau in Paris and the Shanghai Concerthall. Until the 1990s one of the most sought-after concert pianists in Germany, he gave over 100 concerts a year. After economic difficulties, his focus of work has since shifted to Japan, Korea and China as well as Spain. Since the second half of the 2000s he has been working increasingly in Germany, France and America.

His more than 30 records and CD recordings were released in the 80s mainly by Aris / Ariola Polyphonia, the more recent ones by various record labels . Roland Pröll also records for public broadcasting in Germany as well as for radio and television in other countries.

pedagogy

Roland Pröll also made a name for himself as a teacher. From 1976 to 1996, Roland Pröll taught first as a lecturer, later as a professor for piano at the Dortmund University of Music as a department of the Detmold University of Music , which he headed from 1988 to 1990 as dean. During his activity there, the Dortmund University of Music gained an international reputation. One of his most famous students there was the pianist Florian Uhlig , who now lives in England .

After that he worked mainly abroad. He was particularly active in South Korea, Japan and Spain. From 1999 to 2002 Roland Pröll headed the Ibach Academy in Schwelm , an initiative of the piano maker of the same name, which was set up in collaboration with Pröll and has since been transferred to the Music Academy Players without the professional piano department. From the beginning of 2006 to mid-2007, Roland Pröll was also the musical director of the Viva la Musica e. V. in Bad Oeynhausen .

In 1987 he founded the international Schubert competition in Dortmund ( Arnulf von Arnim has now taken over the management) and has also been a regular juror at other competitions (including the Robert Schumann Prize , Rovere d'Oro).

Another important part of his work are masterclasses and lecture concerts, which he regularly holds worldwide, often on behalf of official organizations (including the Goethe Institute ), whereby he has been particularly committed to the poorer regions of the world. He is also the author of various music textbooks.

After visiting professorships at the Atsugi Showa Academy of Music in Tokyo , Japan , and at the Conservatorio Superior de Musica in Murcia , Spain , he taught piano and chamber music at the Institute for Music at the Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences , where he headed the Classical Department from 2009-2010, as well as at the Technical University of Dortmund .

Credit fraud

He gave numerous guarantees for various transactions without properly checking the receipts. In 2014, this led to a conviction of 11 times credit fraud of 6 million DM. He was sentenced to 4½ years at the Dortmund Regional Court and was released after 3 years due to good conduct. Since summer 2018 he has been active as a cantor in the Protestant parish of Hagen.

Discography (excerpt)

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Piano concertos KV 413 and KV 414 a quattro (with Arnsberg string trio)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Chamber music from 3 generations of Mozart ( father , WA, son) (with Manfred Hörr, violin, Christiane Hörr, viola and Peter Hörr, cello)
• Ludwig van Beethoven : Piano Sonatas op.110 and op.111
• Franz Schubert : The Winter Journey (with Berthold Schmidt, tenor )
• Franz Schubert, C. Debussy , J. Brahms and G. Fauré : Cello Sonatas (with Peter Hörr, cello)
• Johannes Brahms : Piano Concerto No. 1 (D minor, op.15) (with the Junge Symphoniker under Werner Seiss )
• Johannes Brahms: Violin Sonatas No. 1 (op. 78), No. 2 (op.100), No. 3 (op.108) and Scherzo in C minor (oop.) (With Ismene Then-Berg, violin)
• Johannes Brahms: Horn Trio in E flat major (op.40), Violin Sonata No. 2 (op.100) and Scherzo in C minor (oop.) (With Gerhard Reich, violin)
• Johannes Brahms: Variations and Fugues on a Theme by Handel (op.24) and Four Ballads (op.10)
• Robert Schumann : Fantasy in C major (op. 17), M. Ravel : Miroirs Spiegelbilder
• Maurice Ravel : Pavane pour une infante défunte , PI Tchaikovsky : Scherzo from Symphony No. 1 ( op.13 ) in G minor, George Gershwin : Rhapsody in Blue (with LJOrchester RP under Michel Luig)

Books

• L'Effet Psychologique du Triton dans la Musique d'Alexandre Scriabine . Thesis at the Sorbonne
• Imagination and artistic production. Can creativity be learned? . Study letter from the Fernuniversität in Hagen , 1997.
• Solfège . Music theory and practical exercises. Self-published, 2006.
• How do you practice effectively? Self-published, 2008.
• The anti-career: novel about the case of a musician . Adlerstein-Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-945462-58-4 .

Web links

• Works by and about Roland Pröll in the catalog of the German National Library
• International Schubert Competition (Roland Pröll is the founder of the competition)
• Institute for Music at the University of Applied Sciences Osnabrück
• IKS Institute for Artistic Solmization

Individual evidence

1. ^ Bed stories: Roland Pröll, credit fraudster
2. ↑ Roland Pröll - The new life of a convicted fraudster
3. ↑ Pröll is a stroke of luck for Hagen