Sontraud Speidel

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Sontraud Speidel (born March 30, 1944 in Karlsruhe ) is a pianist , teacher and piano professor .

Life

Sontraud Speidel grew up in Ettlingen and received her first piano lessons at the age of five. At the age of eleven she was accepted as a preschooler in the class of the Russian teacher Irene Slavin at the Karlsruhe University of Music. After graduating from high school, further studies followed with Yvonne Loriod in Karlsruhe, the Cortot student Branka Musulin in Frankfurt, Stefan Askenase in Brussels and Géza Anda in Lucerne. She passed the soloist examination and the private music teacher examination at the age of 21. For many years she was the head of the keyboard / guitar department and the head of the artistic training study commission at the Karlsruhe University of Music as well as a member of the University Council of the Karlsruhe University of Music .

family

Sontraud Speidel was married to the violin virtuoso Alfred Csammer, who died in 2009.

Awards and honors

At the age of 16, Sontraud Speidel received the only 1st prize in the music competition of schools in Germany. She is the only German 1st prize winner of the Johann Sebastian Bach International Piano Competition Washington DC, USA. She also received the Jackson Prize of the Boston Symphony Orchestra for the interpretation of new music and the Ettore Pozzoli Prize in Seregno, Italy. In 1979 she gave a piano recital at the Palais Schaumburg , Bonn, at the invitation of Chancellor Helmut Schmidt . In 2000 she was awarded the “Silver Medal of Honor for Services to the State of Vienna ” “in recognition of her special achievements” by the Vienna Provincial Government . In 2003 the International Vienna Music Seminar awarded her its highest award, the Golden Josef Dichler Medal. In 2005 she was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. State Secretary Michael Sieber at the handover:

“You are an outstanding pianist and a gifted teacher. But I believe that your human size and charisma, your warm-heartedness and the attention you show your students form the secret of your success. "

She is an honorary member of the Werner Trenker Society, the Tonkünstlerverband Baden-Württemberg and the "Inner Wheel" Northern Black Forest. Furthermore, Sontraud Speidel is the first recipient of the Eugen Werner Velte Prize, which was awarded for the first time in 2011 by the Karlsruhe University of Music. In 2014 her duo CD with works by Beethoven for piano four hands (with Evelinde Trenkner ) was awarded the Belgian Joker Prize. In 2019, together with Evelinde Trenkner, she received the opus Klassik Prize in the category world premiere recording of the year for her CD with Gustav Mahler's 5th Symphony in a transcription for piano four hands .

Key artistic data

Contemporary composers such as Yannis Papaioannou , Kurt Hessenberg , Violeta Dinescu have dedicated works to her and entrusted world premieres. In Tanglewood, USA, she was the soloist at the world premiere of the "Concerto" for piano and 13 instruments by David Winkler, in Karlsruhe she played the world premiere of Dr. Joachim Draheim newly discovered "Variations on a Nocturne by Chopin" by Robert Schumann , in Thessaloniki she played the Greek premiere of the piano concerto by Alexander Scriabin . In 2009 she gave the world premiere of Violeta Dinescu's “Kristallspiele” concert for piano and strings in Solingen. In 2018 she played the world premiere of Richard Fuchs' piano quintet from 1941 with the Stanislas Quartet from Nancy. In addition to the standard repertoire, she devotes herself to seldom performed piano music of the 19th century, for example by Clara Schumann , Fanny Hensel , Theodor Kirchner , Carl Reinecke . She was the first to record the solo piano works by Fanny Hensel, and other first recordings by this composer followed. Sontraud Speidel presented the first recording of Carl Reinecke's “Konzertstück” op. 33 for piano and orchestra. Sontraud Speidel's recording of all Reger works for two pianos with Lübeck pianist Evelinde Trenkner, a student of Wilhelm Kempff and Walter Gieseking , was awarded 1st prize in the “Solo Instruments” category by “Audiophile Reference”. Sontraud Speidel is represented on around 40 CDs so far. Numerous radio recordings (SWR, HR, DW, NDR, WDR, SR, BR) are known of her. She is co-founder and artistic director of the concert series “Musikforum Hohenwettersbach” as well as artistic director of the concert series “Classic in Schloss Gottesaue” of the Kulturfonds Baden eV

She appears regularly at festivals such as the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the cultural summer on the Märkisches Meer, the Bruckner Days in Linz in Austria, the Brahms Festival Lübeck, the Lübeck Chamber Music Festival, the Kronberg Cello Festival, the Vienna Klangbogen, the Kfar Blum Chamber Music Festival in Israel, the Euro event in Korea, the Sorak Festival in Korea. In 2002 she was music director of the International Piano Festival Taiwan in Taipei.

Educational activity

Sontraud Speidel does extensive educational work. She was visiting professor at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance , the Université de Montréal , the Catholic University of America , the Conservatorio di Bologna, the Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles in Belgium, the Sendai University in Seoul, Korea, and the Korean National University of Arts in Seoul, at TO-ON in Tokyo, Japan, at the Royal Academy of Music in London, at the Yehudi Menuhin School in England, at the Janáček Academy for Music and Performing Arts Brno , at the Kromeriz Music Academy, CSR, at Seoul National University and Yonsei University Seoul, both Korea, at Shih Chien University Taipei, Taiwan. She is also a Distinguished Visiting Professor at California State University . Every year she gives master classes in Germany, Austria and Korea. Her students or former students who have been successful and actively performing in national and international competitions include:

Promotion of young talent

Sontraud Speidel directs the “PIANO-PODIUM Karlsruhe e. V. ”, an association of more than 800 members that promotes young pianists and is dedicated to researching piano methodology. The "Fonds Elisabeth Speidel eV" initiated by her supports young musicians. She is chairman of the Karlsruhe regional committee of Jugend musiziert. Sontraud Speidel is a regular member of the jury at national competitions, such as the “ Jugend musiziert ” competitions at regional, state and federal level, the Matthaes competition in Stuttgart, the Robert Schumann competition for young pianists in Zwickau, and the Johann Sebastian Bach competition Köthen and international competitions such as the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition Leipzig, the Callas Competition Athens, the Chopin Competition Darmstadt, the Balakirew Competition in Krasnodar in Russia, the International e-competition Minneapolis, the Cleveland International Piano Competition as well as in Korea, China, Morocco and elsewhere.

Recordings (excerpts)

Piano solo

  • "Romanticism out of joint": Frédéric Chopin: Fuga ; Anton Rubinstein: Six Fugues ; Gabriel Fauré: Pièces Brèves ; Alexander Glasunow: Prelude and Fugue op. 62 ; Camille Saint-Saëns: Six Fugues op. 161 ; (2018)
  • Josef Schelb : Little Sonata, Sehnsuchtstanz der Lau (three piano pieces based on the ballet "Die Schöne Lau"), ten small piano pieces, three piano pieces op. 6, dance suite based on the ballet "Notturno"
  • Barbara Heller : Piano Suite (1956), Sonatina (1962), Night Diary (2003), White Keys, Black Keys (2003), Sound Flowers (2003), Contrasts 2 (2011), Etude 1 (2010)
  • Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Piano Sonatas Vol. 1: Sonata in G minor, Op. 105, Sonata in E major, Op. 6, Sonata in B major, Op. 106
  • Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Piano Sonatas Vol. 2: Sonata in B flat minor (1823), Sonata in A minor (1820), Sonata in E minor (1820), Sonata in F minor (1820), Sonatina in E major (1821), Fantasy about an Irish song (1827) “The last rose” op.15
  • Johann Sebastian Bach: The Six Partitas BWV 825-830

Piano with orchestra

  • Carl Reinecke : Serenade in G minor for string orchestra op. 242, concert piece for piano and orchestra op. 33, twelve sound images for string orchestra

Piano music for four hands and for two pianos

  • Antonín Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 and Slavic Dances
  • Bedřich Smetana: Má vlast (My Fatherland): Vyšehrad - Vlatava (The Moldau) - Šárka - Z českých luhů a hájů (From the Bohemian grove and corridor) - Tábor - Blaník
  • Igor Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps
  • Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 7, Op. 92, Great Fugue, Op. 134
  • Gustav Mahler: Symphonies No. 1 and No. 2 (with Evelinde Trenkner)
  • Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 5 (with Evelinde Trenkner), awarded the opus Klassik Prize 2019

Piano music with strings

  • Armenian Classics: Aram Khachaturyan: Trio for clarinet, violin and piano (2019)
  • Hermann Reutter : Sonata for violin and piano op.20, four songs op.54 based on poems by Friedrich Rückert, dance suite op.29, epitaph for Ophelia music (2018)
  • Johannes Brahms: Trio for piano, clarinet and violoncello in A minor op.114
  • Johannes Brahms: Piano Trio in B major op.8
  • Arnold Schönberg: Transfigured Night
  • Vinzenz Lachner : Chamber music and piano works

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ press reviews
  2. ↑ Books
    • “From pianists and solitary confinement” from the book Stadt Discussions from Karlsruhe by Kirsten Bohlig and Matthias Kehle

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  1. ↑ www.bach-cantatas.com .
  2. ↑ New University Council at the University of Music - February 15, 2011 ( Memento from July 16, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ). Baden Boulevard. Retrieved July 15, 2013.
  3. ↑ Composition of the University Council. - June 20, 2013 . Retrieved October 10, 2014.
  4. ↑ Saved from http://www.hfm-karlsruhe.de/ - 3rd Sep 2012 ( Memento from 3rd September 2012 in the web archive archive.today ). Karlsruhe University of Music. Retrieved July 15, 2013.
  5. ↑ https://www.opusklassik.de . Retrieved November 5, 2019.
  6. ^ Pont-ulm: Matteo Weber .
  7. ↑ Piano Podium - "We About Us" . Retrieved July 15, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Speidel, Sontraud
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pianist and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe