Wolfram Rieger
Wolfram Rieger (* in Waldsassen ) is a German pianist .
He comes from Waldsassen in the Upper Palatinate and became known as a song accompanist for singers such as Brigitte Fassbaender , Barbara Bonney , Thomas Hampson , Anja Harteros and others.
He received his first piano lessons in his parents' house, later with Konrad Pfeiffer in Regensburg . Rieger studied school music at the Munich Conservatory and in the song classes of Erik Werba and Helmut Deutsch . Wolfram Rieger holds numerous courses on song interpretation and has been a professor at the Hanns Eisler Music Academy in Berlin since 1997 .
Important stations of his concert activities included the Wiener Musikverein , the Concertgebouw Amsterdam , the Alte Oper in Frankfurt, the Carnegie Hall in New York and the Salzburg Festival .
In 2017 he was awarded the Hugo Wolf Medal together with Thomas Hampson .
Web links
- Works by and about Wolfram Rieger in the catalog of the German National Library
- Wolfram Rieger in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Wolfram Rieger at Discogs (English)
- Short biography at the "Hanns Eisler" University of Music in Berlin
- Artist's website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Homage to Thomas Hampson and Wolfram Rieger . Archived from the original on October 5, 2017. Retrieved July 27, 2017.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rieger, Wolfram |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German pianist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Waldsassen , Germany |