Henriette Gaertner

Henriette Gärtner ( * 1975 in Freudenstadt ) is a German pianist.

Life and work

Henriette Gärtner was born in Freudenstadt and began playing piano at the age of three years. Two years later she made her first major concert in Stuttgart. She grew up in Neuhausen ob Eck and made the Martin- Heidegger -Gymnasium in Meßkirch High School.

Accompanied by renowned chamber orchestra " Festival Strings Lucerne " made ​​the eight-year old in 1983 attracted international attention when she appeared at the Lucerne Festival. At that time, the concerted henceforth known as a child prodigy pianist in Germany together with the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra at the Music Festival in Colmar. In the following years, Henriette Gärtner won a number of piano competitions, most recently the International Master Players Competition in Lugano, Switzerland.

Her musical training supplemented by Henriette Gärtner interpretation and master classes with figures such as Rudolf Buchbinder, Viktor Merzhanov, Karl -Heinz Kammerling, Christian Zacharias, Thomas Lange, Leslie Howard, Sergio Perticaroli, Günter Reinhold and Peter Feuchtwanger.

From 2001 to 2005 Henriette Gärtner studied at the Piano Academy Incontri col Maestro Internazionale in Imola with Leonid Margarius, a student of Regina Horowitz. She finished the academy successfully with the diploma. In addition, she was admitted to the Scuola di Pianistica perfezionamento L. Margarius 2003.

Her concerts have led Henriette Gärtner in the musical centers in Germany, Switzerland, France, Italy, England, Austria, and to Monte Carlo, in the USA, South America and South Africa. There were invitations renowned orchestras under conductors such as Karl Münchinger, Rudolf Baumgartner, Petr Altrichter, Thomas Veal, Richard Schumacher, Thomas Koncz, Howard Griffiths, Elyakum Shapirra, Gerd Albrecht and Edouard de Stoutz. Henriette Gärtner was repeated by the European Beethoven Society in London at St. Martin in the Fields, 2008 in St James's Piccadilly, and in 2012 invited by the Chopin Society with piano recital in Westminster Cathedral Hall. Moreover played Henriette Gärtner 2008 among others for the Associazione Mozart Italia and the Robert and Clara Schumann Society in Leipzig.

She is a fellow of the Arts Foundation of Baden- Württemberg, the foundation for international master classes for music Zurich, the international meeting house Marteau in Lichtenberg and the German - Italian Society in Como / Italy.

In addition to radio broadcasts ( as in 2008 in the cultural radio station SWR2 ) also emerged a number of TV portraits such as Meeting Point Television Tower, Anneliese Rothenberger introduces, prodigies and young musicians with Henriette Gärtner. In 2003, Henriette gardener third CD contrasts with works by Bach / Busoni, Schubert, Chopin, Paderewski and Franck. Since 2004, also followed by DVD releases of concerts in Stuttgart and London.

Not only masterful, but awesome, the " critic Pope " Joachim Kaiser ( the most influential German -language music, literature and theater critic in the second half of the 20th century ) by Henriette gardener's most recent CD LUNA, in which he as fantastic the so-called Moonlight Sonata Drama characterized that have made him a deep impression. He thanked the pianist for not only masterful, but awesome direct interpretation.

Out of interest and pleasure in teaching Henriette Gärtner was still studying beyond the degree program in sports science and romance languages ​​at the University of Konstanz and finished her studies with the second state examination. Meanwhile, she delved into the field of music medicine / Music Physiology and wrote in 2000, her thesis in the Department of Physiology movement on the subject Comparative biomechanical and medical examinations are to stress and strain with concert pianist and competitive athletes.

In addition to her international career as a pianist Henriette Gärtner his doctorate at the University of Konstanz in the field of exercise physiology / biomechanics on the subject on the correlation of sound, force and kinematics playing the piano - demonstrated in works of the piano literature ( Dr. rer nat.. ) And closed their promotion, the total summa cum laude ( excellent) from July 2011.

In August 2013 Henriette gardener appeared dissertation as a book with the title sound, force and kinematics playing the piano with the subtitle About their relation shown in works of the piano literature in the publishing Wißner. The book includes a CD with audio examples.

Discography

  • Luna. , 2012.
  • Baba Yaga. , 2011.
  • Imperial., 2009.
  • Contrasts., 2002.
  • Fascination with music. In 1998.
  • The pianist with works by .... In 1996.
  • Henriette Gärtner Live in London 2010 St. John's Smith Square.
  • Henriette Gärtner Live in London 2008.
  • Henriette Gärtner Live in Stuttgart 2007.
  • Henriette Gärtner Live in London 2006 St. Martin in the Fields.
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