Bernd Glemser

Bernd Franz Glemser (born 30 May 1962 Dürbheim, Baden- Württemberg ) is a German pianist and university professor.

Artistic development

Glemser received his first piano lessons at the age of 7. Even in his training and study time of students of the Russian pianist and music teacher Vitaly Margulis drew attention to himself when he won consecutively 17 international music competitions ( Cortot, Rubinstein, Busoni and others) from 1981. Since his prize at the ARD Music Competition in 1987, is one of the pianist Bernd Glemser to a small circle of top world elite. It was 1989 or matriculated students of the University of Music Freiburg, appointed him as the Hochschule für Musik Saar, the youngest piano professor in Germany to Saarbruecken. Since 1996 Bernd Glemser is Professor of Piano at the University of Music Würzburg.

Bernd Glemsers concert repertoire ranges from Baroque music to piano works of new music. He Specializes but mainly due to the virtuoso works of Franz Liszt, Alexander Scriabin, Sergei Rachmaninoff and Busoni. Rails are now many CDs as for example in the context of the total edition of the sonatas of Robert Schumann and Sergei Prokofiev.

From all over Europe, the USA, Canada, South America, Japan, China, Australia and New Zealand, world renowned pianist receives concert invitations. In addition to his many awards received Bernd Glemser 1992 European Andor Foldes Prize and 2003 - from the hand of the then Federal President Johannes Rau, the German Federal Cross of Merit. He also received the 2006 Cultural Prize of the city of Würzburg.