individual lessons or master classes

Andreas Frölich studied at the music academies in Freiburg with Prof. Vitaly Margulis and in Cologne with Prof. Pavel Gililov. He has won prizes at various international piano competitions (among them

in Senigallia, Finale Ligure, Milan 

or at the international music competition in Vienna, 

Sudeten German Cultural Promotion Prize).

His concert activity leads him both as a soloist with numerous internationally known 

as pianist of the Mendelssohn Trio Berlin and with the Ensemble Wien. 

(concertmasters and members of the Vienna Philharmonic), to the largest concert halls in Europe, South America, Asia, South Africa and Australia, as well as to major international concert halls. 

Music festivals, including the Rheingau Music Festival, Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Easter Festival

Salzburg, Mozartfest Würzburg, Emilia Romagna Festival, Gergiev Festival, Schubertiade Roskilde, Granada Festival and numerous other music festivals worldwide.

His artistic work also includes

numerous broadcast productions at all major 

stations in Germany and numerous international radio stations, as well as more

than 40, partly award-winning CD productions,

at OEHMS CLASSICS, CPO, EMI, BMG, SIGNUM 

and VMS.

Andreas Frölich is the artistic director

he is chairman and artistic director of the international "MozArte" festival, the Orpheo concert series for young international prize winners in Kerkrade, as well as jury chairman, 1st chairman and artistic director of the international piano competition "MozArte" in 

Aachen (www.mozarte.aachen.com).  In addition, he has been the musical director of the 

EURIADE Festivals. 

He teaches as professor at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln -Aachen, since 2016 as 

Professor at the Talent Music Masters Academy in Brescia and since 2018 professor at the "Neue Sterne" Academy in Hannover, Germany.

12 yearsGuest Professor at the international

Summer Academy of the Mozarteum in Salzburg, and gives master classes all over the world, e.g. the

Holland Music Sessions, at the International Forum Musikae in Madrid, the VIPA International Piano cademy in Valencia and Malaga, the Euro Arts Festival Halle, the World Piano Meeting Coimbra / Portugal, the Baltic Festival in Tallinn, the Boya Festival in Shanghai / China, the Piano Loop Festival in Split, the Music Festival Perugia, the Hotchkiss

University Lakeville /USA, as well as at numerous 

Master classes worldwide.  He has also served as a juror for numerous international 

Piano competitions in demand (Beethoven Competition Bonn, Valencia, Madrid, Ferrol, Campillos, Granada, Gorizia, Scriabin/Grosseto, Pescara/Italy, Enschede, Larnaka/Cyprus, Brussels "Cesar Franck", Guanghzhou/China, international Russian Piano Competition. a.o.)

In the last few years, his

he students will win more than 80 prizes (1st and 2nd prizes) at international piano competitions.

Andreas Frölich has been an official Steinway Artist since 2019.

Friedemann Rieger

The German pianist Friedemann Rieger enjoys an international career as soloist, chamber musician and lied accompanist. He has recorded well over 20 CD´s, including Mozart´s piano sonatas, a wide range of violin sonatas and other chamber music works.

He is a top prize winner at a number of international competitions, including the Premio Vittorio Gui in Florence, the prestigious Concours Clara Haskil and the Colmar Chamber Music Competition. Mr. Rieger studied in Stuttgart, Munich and Freiburg with Dora Metzger, Vladimir Horbowski, Andrzej Jasinski and Carl Seemann.

His concert activities have taken him to Washington D.C., New York, Boston, Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Frankfurt, Rome, Milano, Warsaw, Zürich, Basel as well as the Schleswig-Holstein Festival and the Menuhin Festival Gstaad.

Friedemann Rieger is Professor of Piano and chambermusic at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart, and leads a masterclass for chamber music at the Musikhochschule Zürich-Winterthur.

Professor Gerlinde Otto has a class of students from all over the world, many of them winners of international competitions. Young piano students are looking for her inspiring and careful teaching as well as for her extraordinary facility to solve problems of piano technique and body movement awareness. She gives masterclasses in many countries like Norway, Ukraine , Russia, Romania, Turkey, Korea, Canada, China and Italy. 

During her school time Gerlinde Otto has received several prizes of competitions for young musicians like First prize at the National Competition in GDR and in 1980 she was the participant of the final round of the International Johann-Sebastian-Bach Competition. Concert tours led her to Bulgaria, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Italy, Finland, France, Switzerland, Austria, the former Soviet Union, Canada, Korea  and China. 

Gerlinde Otto took part in productions for radio and television and CDs, for example the documentary of „The History of the Piano“, which was made by the broadcasting company in Austria. Next to her extensive work as a solist Gerlinde Otto is in demand as accompanist and chamber musician.

Gerlinde Otto has been a juror of national and international competitions.

Professor Wolfgang Wagenhäuser

Pianist

Born in Frankfurt , Wolfgang Wagenhäuser is a pianist whose unique approach to performance and pedagogy is the result of merging ideas from different schools and traditions of piano playing.  He has studied in the lineage of important pedagogues: Professor Gisela Sott who not only comes directly out of the Liszt tradition but also in performances of Beethoven from the Edwin Fischer tradition and Professor Leonard Hokanson who studied under Arthur Schnabel. In addition, he has had intensive experience under Rosa Sabater (pupil of Alicia de la Rocha) and Rudolf Firkusny (pupil of Janacek).

At age 19 Wolfgang Wagenhäuser (short after his Abitur "with honors") upon his successes in various competitions was the youngest student to have become a "dozent" in Germany and led his own piano class for 3 years in the university in Fulda; afterwards at the age of 22 he was called to lead his own piano class at the university of music and performing arts in Frankfurt am Main. He accepted his professorship position at the university of music in Trossingen 12 years later. Since 2015 Wolfgang Wagenhäuser is guest professor at the Tongji University in Shanghai where he as well developes and leads the interdisciplinary sound research centre.

During his decades of teaching, his students have won many national and international piano competitions and have been recognized nationwide as promising young artists. His former students currently teach in conservatories and universities worldwide. He himself is a winner of numerous first prizes in national and international piano competitions (in Paris and Florence ) and includes special recognition for his authentic and original interpretation of Mozart and Beethoven. 

Wagenhäuser made his first public appearance at the age of five. During his most active years of concertizing, he gave up to 80 concerts per year regularly. His performance opportunities took him all over the world but decided at the age of 35 to diminish his concert life to dedicate more energy to his students and his family. Only since 2003 he has been accepting more concert invitations. 

Wolfgang Wagenhäuser loves playing "Lied" as well as chambermusic from time to time. Here are some of his partners: Aldo Baldin, Gabriele Schnaut, Scott Weir, Christoph Prégardien, Sergej Kravtschenko, Pieter Daniel, Federico Agostini, Maria Kliegel, Michael Flaksman, Andrei Demin, Günter Klaus, Ovidiu Badila, Radovan Vlatkovic, Branimir Slokar, Roger Bobo, Serge Collot, Kim Kaskashian, Dmitri Ashkenazy, Akio Koyama, Leonard Hokanson, Zora Slokar, Soli-Trio and last not least Excelsior-piano-duo.

He receives invitations to countless masterclasses and concerts- from Moscow conservatory to greater parts of Asia . In Germany he manages long-term courses for young pianists at state and national levels. 

Hailed by the press for his ability to interpret a wide range of styles, Wagenhäuser's repertoire is multifarious. Over 50 recordings for CD as well as live concerts for Radio and TV at various festivals in the past years (in Moscow, Bucharest and Riva del Garda) attest to his outstanding ability and contributions as a musician.

More informations about this allround artist (composition, organ, visual arts) you find on 

www.wolfgang-wagenhaeuser.com

“Florian Uhlig plays in masterly fashion. His interpretations bear comparison with the very best. This astonishingly original CD is a real event.” (Süddeutsche Zeitung)

That was the assessment published by the doyen of music critics, Joachim Kaiser, of a recording of Beethoven’s piano variations released on the hänssler CLASSIC label in 2009. Since then, Florian Uhlig has recorded some 20 other releases on the same label, all of which have received high praise in international journals and won awards (e.g. German Record Critics’ Prize): complete works for piano and orchestra of Robert Schumann and Dmitri Shostakovich, piano concertos by Ravel, Poulenc, Françaix, Debussy and Penderecki, as well as Ravel’s and Schumann’s complete works for solo piano. 15 CDs are scheduled for the Schumann cycle, 13 of which have already been released.

Florian Uhlig was born in Düsseldorf and gave his first piano recital at the age of twelve. He studied in London at the Royal College of Music and the Royal Academy of Music, finishing with the concert diploma. He was also influenced by working with Peter Feuchtwanger and by his research towards a PhD thesis at the University of London on the role of the performer in the context of musical genre. Florian Uhlig reconciles contradictions in an unusual manner. On the one hand, he is rooted in the German music tradition, which is associated with seriousness, style and structure, while on the other, his many years in London have led him to develop more of an individual approach to musical works than is usual on the “continent”: pointed liberties, eccentric combinations of repertoire and curiosity about rare works. 

Florian Uhlig made his orchestral debut at the Barbican in London in 1997. Since then he has appeared at leading concert halls across the world, performing with orchestras like the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Beijing Symphony Orchestra, the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie, the Dresden Philharmonic, the Hong Kong Sinfonietta, the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela, the National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan, the Bavarian Radio Chamber Orchestra, the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra and the Vienna Chamber Orchestra. He has worked with conductors like Krzysztof Penderecki, Josep Caballé, Claus Peter Flor, Eivind Gullberg Jensen, Kristjan Järvi, Michail Jurowski, Michael Sanderling and Gerard Schwarz.

Florian Uhlig has performed at the Beethoven Festivals of Bonn and Warsaw, the Casals Festival, Lorin Maazel’s Castleton Festival, the Menuhin Festival in Gstaad, the Hong Kong Arts Festival, the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, France Musique Paris, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Schwetzingen Festival and the Vienna Festwochen.

In addition to his solo activities Florian Uhlig is much in demand as a chamber musician and lieder pianist. He was the last partner of the legendary baritone Hermann Prey. 

In 2009, Florian Uhlig founded the Johannesburg International Mozart Festival in South Africa. As Artistic Director, he has since then guided the fortunes of the two-week music festival, which presents symphony and choral concerts as well as chamber and solo recitals featuring top-class ensembles and artists, additionally exerting important influences in the fields of interdisciplinary projects, contemporary music, the promotion of young artists and social integration.

Appointed Professor of Piano at the Musikhochschule Carl Maria von Weber in Dresden in 2014, Florian Uhlig is assuming the same role at the Musikhochschule Lübeck since October 2019. He holds masterclasses in Germany, France, Great Britain, Canada, Hong Kong, South Korea, China and Switzerland.

Florian Uhlig was accorded Associateship of the Royal Academy of Music in London in May 2015.