Christian Seibert

Christian Seibert (born 1975 in Delmenhorst) is a German classical pianist. He founded the Kleist Music School, which he has made it its aim to promote ensemble playing from an early age.

Life and career

Seibert comes from a family of musicians - his father is the pianist and chamber musician Kurt Seibert - and gave his first public appearances at the age of ten. At 16 he began his studies with Pavel Gililov [de] in Cologne. It followed study stays in Vienna and master classes with renowned pianists like Bruno Leonardo Gelber and Rudolf Kehrer. International competition successes, among them the Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition and the Robert Schumann International Competition for Pianists and Singers in Zwickau paved the way for him to a lively international concert career, among others with the European Union Chamber Orchestra, and to acceptance into numerous support programmes.

In March 2013 he founded the Kleist Music School in Frankfurt (Oder). In the same year Seibert was appointed artistic director of the lounge concerts of the Viadrina European University in Frankfurt (Oder).[1]

Festivals and concerts

He is particularly interested in the music of the turn from the 19th to the 20th century. In his commitment to rare repertoire, he played 22 concerts with Furtwängler's 65-minute piano quintet with the Kairos Quartet Salzburg on a tour of four countries. He can be heard regularly at festivals such as the Alpenklassik Festival Bad Reichenhall, the Bodenseefestival, the Czech Dvořák Festival, the Echternach Music Festival (Luxembourg), the Festival Internacional de Santander (Spain) and the Klavier-Festival Ruhr and gives solo recitals in Munich (Gasteig), Salzburg (Residenz), Bremen (Glocke), Hamburg (Musikhalle), Prague, London (Wigmore Hall), New York, Atlanta and Dubai.

Recordings

His interest in the music of the turn of the century led to radio productions and recordings by the WDR, including the rarely played, highly sophisticated concert studies by Ernst Toch, which the rarities label CPO put on the market. He dedicated his second CPO CD to the composer Paul Hindemith, and in 2012 the works for piano and orchestra by Alexander Tansman with the Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt (Oder) under GMD Howard Griffiths were released on CPO. Elisabeth Richter in her CD performance on WDR3 TonArt: "... The precision and sovereignty with which Christian Seibert plays the hellishly difficult piano part are simply fascinating and his musical fire, his sensitivity and his touch nuances are as if made for Tansman's colourful tonal language. ..." (13 July 2012)

The complete sonata piano work by Krzysztof Meyer was released by the label EDA in 2011. The piano works by Nino Rota have also been recorded.

  • 2004 Ernst Toch: Capriccetti op. 36, Kleinstadtbilder op. 49, Sonata op. 47, Burlesken op. 31, Konzert Etüden op. 55, CPO 999 926 2[2]
  • 2007 Paul Hindemith: Klaviersonate Nr. 3, Tanzstücke op. 19, In einer Nacht op. 15, CPO 777 171 2[3]
  • 2011 Krzysztof Meyer: Klaviersonaten Nr. 1 6, Aphorismen op. 3, Quasi una fantasia op. 104, EDA 36 (2CD)[4]
  • 2012 Alexandre Tansman: Concertino (1913), Konzert für Klavier und Orchester (1931), CPO 777 449 2[5]

References

  1. ^ Viadrina Lounge-Konzerte Oderpost, 20 October 2013
  2. ^ Kritik zur Toch-Einspielung bei musicweb international
  3. ^ Kritik beim Listener zur Hindemith-CD
  4. ^ WERGO-Information zur Krzysztof Meyer-Box bei EDA
  5. ^ Archived [Date missing] at dasorchester.de [Error: unknown archive URL] zur Tansman-Aufnahme

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