Stephan Rahn

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Stephan Rahn is a pianist from Speyer who lives in Speyer and gives concerts worldwide.

Life

In his youth, Stephan Rahn was a member of the Speyer Cathedral Choir for a long time and completed his training as a church musician at the Episcopal Church Music Institute. Stephan Rahn later studied piano , harpsichord and music theory at the music academies in Cologne , Berlin and Karlsruhe .

He learned piano with Josef Anton Scherrer at the Hochschule für Musik Köln / Wuppertal, and at the Hochschule für Musik Berlin with Annerose Schmidt (piano) and Walter Olbertz ( song accompaniment ). Harpsichord taught him Christine Daxelhofer, music theory Jörg Mainka. He attended master classes with Jörg Demus , Peter Feuchtwanger , Karl-Heinz Kämmerling , Menahem Pressler and Ferenc Rados .

He was awarded first prize at the national youth music competition .

He appears in Germany, Europe, America and Asia as a soloist, chamber musician and accompanist. His performance partners included the flautist Carin Levine , the trumpeter Stephan Stadtfeld, the cellist Julian Steckel and the Minguet and Mandelring Quartet .

Stephan Rahn teaches at the Hanns Eisler University of Music in Berlin . For the International Teacher Association Network he did not teach in Cambodia.

He is particularly fond of modern composers who work with classical instrumentation. In concerts he presented composers such as Tan Dun , Dieter Mack , Bruno Maderna , Salvatore Sciarrino , Ryo Chanson, Keiko Harada , Werner H. Schmitt, Wolfgang Rihm , Brian Ferneyhough and Nathalie Feyyen Herres.

Since 2008 he has been organizing the concert series for contemporary music kontrapunkte in his hometown Speyer , in which renowned soloists and ensembles for modern music such as drummer Johannes Fischer , the Sonic.art saxophone quartet or the ensemble SurPlus can be heard.

Honors and prizes

  • First prize at the Nuremberg piano competition.

The Graff Quartet , founded in 1997, won several competitions during their training at the Brno Conservatory and at the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno , including:

  • International competition for Beethoven's works in Hradec nad Moravicí ,
  • International Chamber Ensemble Competition ACT in London 2003,
  • International competition ostracized music in Schwerin .

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Works

  • Chunkan Wu (baritone), Stephan Rahn (piano): Romantic songs , album by the AUDITORIUM recording studio.
  • Stephan Stadtfeld - trumpet, Stephan Rahn - organ
    • Vassily Brandt (1869–1923): 1) Concert Piece No. 1 in F minor, Op. 11 9:08,
    • Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750): 2) Pièce d'Orgue in G major BWV 572 8:51,
    • Maurice Ravel (1875–1937) / arr. S. Rahn: 3) Pavane pour une infante défunte 6:43,
    • Léon Boëllmann (1862–1897): 4) Toccata from the Suite gothique p. 25 3:31,
    • Alessandro Marcello (1673–1747): Concerto in D minor [excerpts] 5) Adagio 2:59
    • 6) Presto 2:24,
    • Josef Gabriel Rheinberger (1839–1901): 7) Cantilena from the Organ Sonata, No. 11 in D minor, Op. 148 6:20,
    • Johann Baptist Neruda (1707–1780): Concerto in E flat major [cadenzas: S. Stadtfeld]
    • 8) Allegro 4:56
    • 9) Largo 5:49
    • 10) Vivace 4:38

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ red: Pomp and Circumstances. Stephan Stadtfeld and Stephan Rahn play tonight in the Catholic Church Otterstadt in Speyerer Morgenpost from December 31, 2013, page 4
  2. ↑ a b Award-winning and well-traveled musicians at the Summer Music Days - Allegria quintet, saxophone trio and the pianist Stephan Rahn - kick-off on August 15 ( memento from April 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  3. ↑ FWCPA - Foundation for the Advancement of Western Classical Performing Arts in Cambodia ( Memento of 5 September 2008 at the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.speyer-aktuell.de
  5. ↑ http://www.kontrapunkte-speyer.de
  6. ↑ http://www.stadtfeld-rahn.de

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personal data
SURNAME Rahn, Stephan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pianist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century