BIPF: Celebrity Masterclass - Klaus Sticken
Recital Hall, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
200 Jennens Road, B4 7XR
£5
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Birmingham International Piano Festival: Celebrity Masterclass
Professor Klaus Sticken, Professor of Piano, Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna
Running time approx. two hours
Klaus Sticken studied at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media with Konrad Meister and Vladimir Krainev (concert diploma 1997). Other influential teachers included Vitaly Margulis, György Sebök, and Alfred Brendel. Among his competition successes are Hamamatsu (1994), Vevey (1995), and Athens (1996). He has performed in venues such as Hamburg's Laeiszhalle, Berlin's Konzerthaus, Berlin Philharmonie, Stuttgart's Liederhalle, Zurich's Tonhalle, Kyiv Philharmonic Hall, and the Great Hall of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow.
As a soloist, he has collaborated with renowned orchestras such as the Warsaw Philharmonic under Kazimierz Kord, Lausanne Chamber Orchestra under Jesús López-Cobos, Berlin Symphony Orchestra under Grzegorz Nowak, and Moscow Symphony Orchestra under Mark Gorenstein. Concert tours have taken him to many European countries and to the Far East. Recordings and radio broadcasts document his wide-ranging repertoire. Alongside the established repertoire, he presents newly discovered, original, and previously unheard works, including recordings by Clementi, Reubke, Strauss, Korngold, Martin, Honegger, and Rota.
He was appointed to the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna in September 2009.