Prof. Birgitta Wollenweber

Prof. Birgitta Wollenweber, born near Cologne, studied at the Detmold Academy of Music with Prof. Kretschmar-Fischer and completed her studies in 1990 with the concert exam. From 1988-89 she studied with a DAAD scholarship with Peter Wallfish at the Royal College of Music in London. Masterclasses with Prof. Hans Leygraf, Prof. Halina Czerny-Stefanska, Prof. Gerhard Oppitz and Bruno Leonardo Gelber furthered her artistic development. Competition successes include the Chopin Piano Competition of the Kurd Aschenbrenner Foundation in Cologne, the International Chopin Piano Competition in Darmstadt, the Joy Scott Prize of the Royal College of Music, the International Piano Competition Maria Canals de Barcelona and the German Music Competition. In 1991 the German Music Council selected her for the national concert series ”Konzerte Junger Künstler”. She was invited to perform at many different festivals, including the Rheinisches Musikfest, the International Musik Festival Dinu Lipatti in Sinaia/Rumania, the Kunstfest Weimar, the Beethovenfest Bonn, the Chopin Festival Mariánské Lázne in Marienbad/Czech Republic, the Festival de l'Eté Mosan/Belgium, the ”Klaviersommer” in the Kammermusiksaal of the Beethoven House in Bonn, the Festival de Flandre in Belgium, the Rheingau Musik Festival and the International Chamber Music Festival La Musica in Florida. Birgitta Wollenweber performs internationally both as a chamber music partner and as soloist with orchestras. Studio recordings and live concerts have been broadcast on NDR, WDR, ZDF and Bayerischen Rundfunk and by Radio Bremen, Deutschlandfunk and the Deutsche Welle. Her repertoire encompasses compositions from all periods. Her extensive discography includes many rediscovered composers such as Julius Weismann, Carl Loewe, Georg von Albrecht, Salomon Jadassohn, Joseph Joachim, Wilhelm Furtwängler and Florent Schmitt. Birgitta Wollenweber has held a professorship for piano at the Academy of Music Hanns Eisler Berlin since 2003.

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