Rolf Basten

Rolf Basten (* 1951 ) is a German harpsichordist and music consultant.

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After the conclusion of a church music studies Rolf Basten received his diploma in Artistic State Historical Keyboard Instruments "with distinction", as well as the master class diploma at the Music Academy in Munich , Stuttgart Music Academy and at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. Rolf Basten was a student of harpsichordist Hedwig Bilgram and from 1983 to 1987 a student of Kenneth Gilbert .

His occupation with the fortepiano and his interest in pre-classical sonatas after Domenico Scarlatti and before Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart began early on . Rolf Basten lives in Munich . He gives concerts at home and abroad and made numerous radio and television recordings.

During the master class with Kenneth Gilbert at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Rolf Basten carried out research on the impact of social and intellectual developments on the phenomena of the fine arts of all epochs.

From 1992 this brought invitations to lectures at public and closed interdisciplinary scientific symposia, for example at the Technology Day in Teltow, on problems of innovation, the Technical University of Munich , on the subject of music - technology, two worlds in harmony (with the Munich Chamber Orchestra under Alexander Liebreich ), the Evangelical Academy Tutzing , on the subject of time, at the International Chopin Festival 2011 in the Kulturzentrum im Gasteig , Munich and regularly by the Munich Richard Wagner Association , at Trinity College (Oxford) , the summer academy in the Haus am Waldsee , Berlin etc. Rolf Basten received an award from the Polish government for his lecture on the Chopin Year.

Basten has been designing his own series of lectures in the Munich gallery f5komma6 since 2004 . The topics of the lectures relate musical and extra-musical phenomena. The combination of many short music examples from various epochs and genres should lead to the experience of development processes and thereby form a key to knowledge and understanding.

Web links

• Website by Rolf Basten
• Lecture by Rolf Bastens inside, outside and in between on YouTube
• Rolf Basten at the Allegro Music Institute