Career

Lars Vogt studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover with Karl-Heinz Kämmerling

Karl-Heinz Kämmerling

Karl-Heinz Kämmerling is a notable German academic teacher of classical pianists, who prepared at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover pianists for a career as performers and academic teachers, particularly in the early training of highly gifted...

. He rose to prominence after winning second prize at the 1990 Leeds International Piano Competition and has since gone on to give major concerto and recital performances. In the 2003/04 season he made his debut with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra under conductor Lorin Maazel

Lorin Maazel

Lorin Varencove Maazel is an American conductor, violinist and composer.- Early life :Maazel was born to Jewish-American parents in Neuilly-sur-Seine in France and brought up in the United States, primarily at his parents' home in Pittsburgh's Oakland neighborhood. His father, Lincoln Maazel , was...

. He is especially interested in chamber music, founding the festival „Spannungen“ in Heimbach

Heimbach

Heimbach is a town in the district of Düren in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located on the river Rur, in the Eifel hills, approx. 20 km south of Düren. Heimbach is the city with the smallest number of residents in North Rhine-Westphalia...

 (Eifel) in 1998. He has a close association with the Berlin Philharmonic.

In 2004 he was awarded both the Brahmspreis and the Echo Klassik. He also won the "Großer Kulturpreis der rheinischen Sparkassen" in 2006.

Discography

• Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2
• Mozart: Piano Recital
• Mozart: Piano Trio / Berg: Sonate / Schönberg: Chambersymphony (Heimbach)
• Dvorak: Sonatine / Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio (Heimbach)
• Russian Cello Sonatas Truls Mørk
• French Violin Sonatas, with Sarah Chang
  Sarah Chang
  Sarah Chang is a Korean American violinist. Her debut came in 1989 with the New York Philharmonic and the Philadelphia Orchestra. Shortly thereafter, Chang was recognized as a child prodigy. She enrolled at Juilliard School to study music, graduating in 1999 and continuing university studies...
  
  
• Grieg/Schumann: Piano Concertos
• Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition, with Konrad Beikircher

External links

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