Volker Ahmels

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Volker Ahmels (born November 15, 1961 in Hamburg ) is a German pianist , graduate music pedagogue, chairman of the state committee " Jugend musiziert " Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, director of the conservatory "Johann Wilhelm Hertel" of the state capital Schwerin and head of the "Center for Outlawed Music" Rostock University of Music and Theater.

Biographical

Supported by his parents (pianist and choir singer), he received piano lessons at the age of 6. In 1980 he received his first national music award and then began studying piano at the Lübeck University of Music with Hartmut Leistritz . After completing his studies, he took part in international interpretation courses, with a particular interest in contemporary music. In 1991 he was appointed director of the " Johann Wilhelm Hertel " conservatory in the state capital of Schwerin, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . As chairman of the board of the regional association Jeunesses Musicales Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, he is the founder of the international interpretation competition Ostracized Music and the associated festival Ostracized Music. Since 2008, Volker Ahmels has been director of the "Center for Ostracized Music" at the Rostock University of Music and Theater and since 2013 he has been a lecturer in music education there. In 2018 he received the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon for his commitment.

Artistic

In 1990 he met the composer Luigi Nono in Avignon, who inspired him to the musical and literary concert project "Vanishing Point Venice". At numerous concerts and festivals, including the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival , he performed it together with actor Christoph Bantzer . He made his international debut as a pianist at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. As a soloist, chamber musician and in a piano duo with Friederike Haufe , he performs regularly in Germany, Europe and the USA.

Programmatic

The memory of Theresienstadt and its artists is a special focus of his pianistic and educational work. In 1999 he developed the international masterclasses "History, Music & Remembrance" together with Israeli and Czech partners, which took place in Israel, Schwerin and Prague until 2003. Every two years since 2001 he has been the director of the "International Interpretation Competition Ostracized Music" in Schwerin, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

Prices

  • 2004 Federal "Invention" award, sponsorship award from the German Music Council
  • 2007 Federal Prize "Children to Olympus - Schools Cooperate with Culture"
  • 2009 Golden Star Award from the European Union
  • 2012 Federal Prize "Active for Democracy and Tolerance"
  • 2018 Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
  • 2019 "Art and Culture Prize of the Sparkasse Mecklenburg-Schwerin Foundation"

chess

Volker Ahmels is also known as a chess player . In 1976 he was German C youth champion, in 1978 second in the German B youth championship. He played with the SK Johanneum Eppendorf in the 1981/82 season in the top German division, the Bundesliga chess league, and he also played with the SK Johanneum Eppendorf and the Lübeck chess club from 1873 in the 2nd Bundesliga . His highest rating was 2275 from July 1988 to December 1990.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johannes Eising, Claus-Dieter Meyer, Gerd Treppner: Schachbundesliga 1980-83 , Bamberger Schachverlag, Bamberg 1984, ISBN 3-923113-04-8 , page 107
  2. ^ Johannes Eising, Gerd Treppner: Schachbundesliga 1984-88 , Joachim Beyer Verlag, Hollfeld 1989, ISBN 3-88805-081-2 , pages 103, 109, 115, 120, 124
personal data
SURNAME Ahmels, Volker
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pianist
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg