Thomas Duis

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Thomas Duis (* 1958 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German pianist and university professor .

Life

Thomas Duis received his artistic training from Kurt Gerecke (Wiesbaden), Karl-Heinz Kämmerling (Hanover) and Fanny Waterman (Leeds). After receiving a prize from the German Music Council and receiving a scholarship from the Study Foundation, he was given the opportunity to study further with Claudio Abbado , Alfred Brendel , Christoph von Dohnányi and Hans Leygraf . This was followed by a whole series of competition successes, including a. a prize at the ARD competition in 1987 and 2nd prize at the Arthur Rubinstein competition (1st prize not awarded) in Tel Aviv. Invitations to concerts followed, which took the pianist to Australia, Africa, Asia, the USA and all over Europe. As the "musical ambassador" of the Goethe Institute, he has given concerts in Atlanta, Athens, Algiers, Beirut, Amman, Bordeaux, Casablanca, Cairo, London, Manchester, Warsaw, Damascus and Toulouse. Duis was a guest at several important festivals and made music with many well-known orchestras. He is also known as a chamber music player, for example as the piano partner of Frank Peter Zimmermann , Gustav Rivinius , Pavel Berman, Reinhold Friedrich and Natasha Korsakova .

Thomas Duis has also made a name for himself as a versatile pianist through many recordings on records and CDs, some of which have been awarded the German Record Prize.

In 1994 the pianist accepted a call to the music academy in Graz . In 1998 he received a professorship at the Saar University of Music in Saarbrücken , where he was rector from April 2004 to 2012.

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SURNAME Duis, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pianist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main