Daniel Gerzenberg

  • Born in Hamburg
  • Piano studies in Hamburg with Prof. Marian Migdal and Mauro Lo Conte; currently studying at the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin in the song class of Prof. Wolfram Rieger
  • Concerts at major festivals such as the Schleswig-Holstein Musikfestival, the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the Mozart-Fest Würzburg, and the Klavierfestival Ruhr, as well as orchestral concerts with the National Taipei Symphony Orchestra, the Russian Chamber Philharmonic St. Petersburg, the Haydn Orchester Bozen, and the Münchner Symphoniker
  • Klavierduo Gerzenberg: special prizewinner from the NDR; CD “Martha Argerich and Friends” (EMI)
  • Prizewinner at song competitions such as the Concours International de Chant-Piano Nadia et Lili Boulanger and the international song competition Franz Schubert und die Musik der Moderne
  • Appearances as a poet, translator, actor, and reciter, including collaborations with young composers who have set his poetry to music
  • 2014: publication of the volume of poetry “Auf der Suche nach der Rose“ (Verlag Neues Leben) and translation from the French of the poème de théâtre “Stabat Mater Furiosa“ (secession Verlag für Literatur) by Jean-Pierre Siméon; advancement award for literary translation from the City of Hamburg
  • Partnerships as a speaker with the cultural project tonali and with Ensemble Resonanz
  • 2017-18: coach in the classes of Júlia Várady and Tabea Zimmermann at the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin, and beginning winter semester 2018, instructor in the newly-created subject of poetry