Sophie-Mayuko cousin

Sophie-Mayuko Vetter (* 1978 in Sapporo ) is a German-Japanese pianist.

Life

Sophie-Mayuko Vetter was born in Sapporo in 1978 and received lessons in piano, violin, composition, overtone singing and music theory from the age of four . In the following years she composed a series of over 150 manuscript pages of overtone duets, which were later also published. Until 1996 she gave concerts and masterclasses as an overtone singer all over the world with her father Michael Vetter .

From the time she moved to Germany, Sophie-Mayuko Vetter received regular piano and historical keyboard lessons from Edith Picht-Axenfeld until her death. At the age of nine, she was accepted into the preliminary class at the Freiburg University of Music, where she later also completed her postgraduate courses with honors. She studied piano a. a. with Vitaly Margulis and Peter Feuchtwanger (London), historical performance practice with Robert Hill and musicology with Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf .

music

Sophie-Mayuko Vetter is considered to be an extraordinarily versatile musician with a broad repertoire from the early baroque to the core pianistic repertoire to contemporary music. In addition, she plays the repertoire of the 18th and 19th centuries on the fortepiano , which gives her reproductions of this repertoire on a modern concert grand piano, including improvisation and ornamentation, a special historical authenticity. In close collaboration with the composers, she premiered works by Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf, Peter Ruzicka and Henri Pousseur . Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf dedicated his piano concerto “Prospero's Epilogue” to her, which she premiered in 2005 at the Salzburg Festival with the RSO Vienna.

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Sophie-Mayuko Vetter's lively concert activity took her to the most renowned music venues in Germany, such as Alte Oper Frankfurt, Philharmonie Essen, Liederhalle Stuttgart, Gasteig Munich, Tonhalle Düsseldorf. Abroad she has given concerts in the Opera City Hall (Tokyo), the Felsenreitschule Salzburg, St. Martin-in-the-Fields and Blackheath Halls (London). She has also made guest appearances at the Salzburg Festival, the Albert Concerts Freiburg, the Kissinger Sommer, the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Festival, the Ruhr Piano Festival, the Radeberg Concerts Cologne (DLF) and the Munich Biennale .

Sophie-Mayuko Vetter teaches master classes a. a. at the Baptist University Hong Kong. In addition, she regularly writes musicological essays as an employee and founding member of the renowned magazine "Musik & Ästhetik" (Klett-Cotta-Verlag).

Prizes and awards

• 1992 Parke Davis Prize

Discography (selection)

• 1991 24 Preludes by Frédéric Chopin
• 2007 "The Monk's Screen" by Henri Pousseur
• 2010 Complete recording of Peter Ruzicka's piano works
• 2011 Recital at the Ruhr Piano Festival (works by Chopin, Bach, Handel, Schumann, Ruzicka)
• 2012 works by Hans Otte and Peter Ruzicka
• 2012 "Le rève d'ange nouveau" by Claus Steffen Mahnkopf
• 2013 Recital at the Ruhr Piano Festival (works by Liszt and Ruzicka)
• 2014 Works by Johannes Brahms (including op.117, 118, 119)
• 2015 works by Liszt and Ruzicka
• 2016 piano concertos by Mozart (KV 595, 453, 315 f.)

Web links

• Website Sophie-Mayuko Vetter