Alexander Schimpf’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro German pianist
Is Musician 
Pianist 
Professor 
Educator 
From Germany 
Type Academia 
Music 
Gender male
Birth 28 August 1981, Göttingen, Germany
Age: 38 years
Star sign Virgo
Awards
Bayerischer Kunstförderpreis 2013

Alexander Schimpf (* 28. August 1981 in Göttingen) ist ein deutscher Pianist.

Leben

Schimpf absolvierte seine Studien bei Wolfgang Manz, Winfried Apel und Bernd Glemser und erhielt weitere Anregungen von Cécile Ousset und Janina Fialkowska.

Konzertauftritte führten ihn in zahlreiche deutsche Städte (u. a. Gasteig München, Konzerthaus Berlin, NDR Hannover, Beethovenhaus Bonn, Musik- und Kongresshalle Lübeck, Philharmonie Köln) sowie zu Festivals wie Oberstdorfer Musiksommer, Heidelberger Frühling und Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele. Es folgten Einladungen nach Frankreich (Auditorium du Louvre und Salle Cortot in Paris), Italien, Österreich, in die Schweiz, nach Polen, England, Russland, Spanien, in die USA sowie mehrfach nach Südamerika. Sein Debüt-Konzert in New Yorks Carnegie Hall fand im Dezember 2011 statt.

Schimpf ist seit 2016 Professor für Klavier an der Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover.

Auszeichnungen

  • 2008: Preis des Deutschen Musikwettbewerbs
  • 2009: 1. Preis des Internationalen Beethoven-Wettbewerbes in Wien.
  • 2011: 1. Preis beim Internationalen Klavierwettbewerb in Cleveland (als erster deutscher Pianist in der Geschichte des Wettbewerbes)
  • 2013: Bayerischer Kunstförderpreis

Aufnahmen und Veröffentlichungen

Die erste Solo-CD von Alexander Schimpf mit Klavierwerken von Mozart, Beethoven, Albéniz, Debussy und Sieber erschien 2010. Eine zweite CD mit Klavierwerken von Ravel, Skrjabin und Schubert erschien im Januar 2013, 2015 dann eine weitere CD mit Werken von Brahms, Debussy und Beethoven.

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