JOEY CALDERAZZO

PETRONEL MALAN

ALEXANDER PALEY

CLEMENS UNTERREINER

OVIDIO DE FERRARI

MIKHAIL PLETNEV

 

Since 2010, he has been passionately involved in various teaching positions as a lecturer for music theory at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig, as an assistant professor for score playing and piano accompaniment at the University of Music „Franz Liszt“ Weimar as well as a visiting professor for piano at the University of Music of Venice (Conservatorio di musica “Benedetto Marcello” Venezia). He worked as a conductor with the Jena Philharmonic, the Thuringian Philharmonic Gotha-Suhl and with the Erfurt Opera House, as well as with the ensemble leipzig 21 (as its Artistic Director) and conducted many first performances of the works of contemporary composers. 2014 he was the artist in residence of the Cantiere Internazionale d’Arte in Montepulciano, a festival which was founded by Hans Werner Henze. For the new staging of J. W. Goethe’s Faust at the Thuringian State Theatre Rudolstadt he created 2015 a new symphonic stage music for soloists, choir and orchestra. In occasion of the Liszt-year 2011 he wrote the orchestra paraphrase La Chapelle de François Liszt, commissioned by the Thuringen Symphony Orchestra. Hannes Pohlit’s compositions are published in the Friedrich Hofmeister Music Publisher (Leipzig), including Il Vento für large orchestra, the piano trio Les Lumières de la Nuit, the violin concerto Humanité as well as his twelve Paraphrases de Tango for solo piano, which continues with the tradition of the virtuoso paraphrase by Franz Liszt. He is also well connected to Blüthner, one of the most famous piano manufacturers, and he appreciates the warm sound of the Blüthner grand piano as the ideal instrument for his interpretations. A portrait about the artist was produced and broadcasted by the SWR in 2019. His debut solo-album “The Hour of Spirits” (with works by Hans Werner Henze, George Enescu and Franz Liszt) was released in the label querstand in 2021.

 

Historical Composers & Artists

"After my coffee and cigar we went to one of the recording rooms where they had a Blüthner piano Well, this Blüthner had the most beautiful singing tone I had ever found. I became quite enthusiastic and decided to play my beloved Barcarolle of Chopin. The piano inspired me. I don’t think I ever played better in my life.“

Arthur Rubinstein 

„My Many Years“ (page 281)

 

„In das Exil nach Amerika begleiteten mich nur zwei Wesen von Bedeutung: meine Frau Natalja und mein kostbarer Blüthner.“

“There are only two important things which I took with me on my way to America. My wife Natalia and my precious Blüthner.”

Sergei Rachmaninoff

 

 “Almost in the middle of the room, the black Blüthner grand stood, free of music, book or photographs. Debussy was proud of his grand piano, and before I played he showed me a new device invented by Blüthner: an extra string set on top of the others. Although not touched by the hammers, it caught the overtones, thus increasing the vibrations and enriching the sonority. This was a piano he had rented during a stay in Bournemouth, and liked so well that he had bought it and had it shipped to Paris.” “He played a number of passages and the tone he extracted from the Blüthner was the loveliest, the most elusive and ethereal I have ever heard”. 

letter from Maurice Dumesnil, friend

Claude Debussy

Debussy's Blüthner at the Musée Labenche