Michael Korstick
Michael Korstick ( born April 30, 1955 in Cologne ) is a German pianist.
Life
Michael Korstick received his first piano lessons at age nine. Already at the age of eleven he won the first prize at " Young Musicians ". After high school he studied with Jürgen Tröster in Cologne and Hans Leygraf in Hanover. In 1974, he met at a master class of the Russian pianist Tatiana Nikolayeva, with whom he worked repeatedly in the following years. He made his debut in 1975 with Beethoven's Piano Sonatas Op 106 and Op 111
1976 Korstick went to the USA and continued his training as a fellow at New York's Juilliard School continues, he also worked with Jeaneane Dowis the Aspen Music Festival. In 1976 he debuted in New York also with Beethoven's Hammerklavier Sonata Op 106 and the Diabelli Variations, Op 120 In the following seven years he brought his studies at the Juilliard School with Sascha Gorodnitzki to an end. As the winner of the " National Selection concerts by young artists " of the German Music Council in 1983, he returned back to Germany, where he began his regular concert career.
Korstick is now regarded as " one of the most important Beethoven interpreters of our time" ( Audiophile, Fono Forum ). His enormously varied repertoire includes 120 piano concertos, a large number of solo works from every era, including the cycle of the complete piano sonatas of Beethoven. He undertook numerous worldwide concert tours and played cyclical overall performances of the piano concertos of Beethoven, Brahms (often both concerts on the same night ), Liszt, Rachmaninoff, Bartók and Prokofiev.
A wide audience Korstick was known primarily for his recordings.
Meanwhile, Michael Korstick has produced more than 30 recordings for various labels, for which he was awarded, among others, the Echo Klassik 2005, the MIDEM Classical Award in Cannes in 2009 and five times the "Prize of the German Record Critics ."
Since the end of 2012 he lives and works in Bonn.
Discography
- 2004 Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Works Vol 1 - Diabelli Variations Op 120
- 2005 Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Vol 2 - Sonatas 1, 2, 3
- 2006 Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Vol 3 - Sonatas 4, 9, 10, 12
- 2006 Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Vol 4 - Sonatas 5, 6, 7, 8
- 2007 Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Vol 5 - Sonatas 11, 19, 20, 13, 14
- 2007 Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Vol 6 - Sonata 15 Variations op 34, op 35
- 2008 Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Vol 7 - Sonatas 16, 17, 18
- 2008 Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Vol 8 - Sonatas 21, 22, 23
- 2008 Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Vol 9 - Sonatas 24, 25, 26, 27, 28
- 2003 Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Vol 10 - Sonata 29 Bagatelles Op 126 Rondo Op 129
- 1997 Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Vol 11 - Sonatas 30, 31, 32
- 1997/2010 Robert Schumann: Kreisleriana op 16, Arabesque, Op 18, Carnaval, Op 9
- 2005 Darius Milhaud: Complete Works for Piano and Orchestra
- 2007 Max Reger: Piano Concerto in F minor, Opus 114, Bach - Busoni: Piano Concerto in D minor BWV 1052
- 2008/1997 Liszt: Années de Pèlerinage I " Suisse " Sonata in B Minor
- 2009 Franz Liszt: Années de Pèlerinage II " Italie"
- 2010 Franz Liszt: Années de Venezia e Napoli Pèlerinage III
- 2009/2010 Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Songs Without Words ( total uptake ), Variations sérieuses
- 2011 Dmitri Kabalevsky: Piano Concertos Nos. 1-4, Fantasy after Schubert D940, Op 75 Rhapsody
- 2007 Charles Koechlin: Piano Works Vol 1 - " ... des jardins enchantés ... "
- 2008 Charles Koechlin: Piano Works Vol 2 - Les Heures persanes op 65
- 2008 Charles Koechlin: Offrande musicale sur le nom de BACH, Op 187
- 2009 Charles Koechlin: Piano Works Vol 3 - " ... the horizons lointains ... "
- 2011 Claude Debussy: Piano Music Vol 1
- 2012 Claude Debussy: Piano Music Vol 2