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LARS VOGT, Piano |
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Lars Vogt has rapidly established himself as one of the leading pianists
of his generation. Born in the German town of Düren in 1970, he first
came to public attention when he won second prize at the 1990 Leeds International
Piano Competition, and has since gone on to give major concerto and recital
performances throughout Europe, Asia and North America.
An exclusive EMI recording artist, Lars Vogt has made fifteen discs for the label. These include the Schumann and Grieg concertos and the first two Beethoven Concertos with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Sir Simon Rattle, who has described him as "one of the most extraordinary musicians of any age group that I have had the fortune to be associated with". Vogt has also made solo recordings of Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Schumann, Tchaikovsky and Mussorgsky. Last season EMI released a disc of French Violin Sonatas with Sarah Chang and a three disc set of the complete Brahms Duo Sonatas. His most recent concerto release is Hindemith's Kammermusik No 2 with the Berlin Philharmonic and Claudio Abbado.
For the 2003/4 season Lars Vogt was appointed the first ever "Pianist in Residence" for the Berlin Philharmonic, devising four chamber programmes with members of the orchestra and performing Beethoven 1 with Sir Simon Rattle in Salzburg and Berlin. Other major orchestras over the past two seasons have included the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, Royal Concertgebouw, Philharmonia, Orchestre de Paris and Santa Cecilia in Rome.
In the 2005/6 season, Lars Vogt's close relationship with the Berlin Philharmonic continues with concerts under Christian Thielemann who will also conduct his debut with the Munich Philharmonic. Other appearances include the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Bernard Haitink and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra with Daniel Harding in Salzburg to commemorate the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth. In the US he will perform with the symphony orchestras in Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Pittsburgh and returns to New York's Carnegie Hall for a recital and a concert performance with Stockholm Philharmonic. He will also be welcomed back in Tokyo for his fourth appearance with the NHK Symphony.
Lars Vogt enjoys a high profile career as a recitalist and chamber musician and following solo appearances over the past two seasons in New York, Tokyo, London, Paris, Vienna, Rome and Amsterdam, he features at the BBC Proms and festivals of Salzburg, Lucerne, Edinburgh, the Schubertiade and La Roque d'Antheron in Summer 2005. In June 1998 Lars Vogt founded his own festival in Heimbach, Germany. Known as “Spannungen” its huge success has been marked by the release of ten live recordings on EMI. He enjoys regular partnerships with colleagues such as Christian Tetzlaff and collaborates with actor Klaus-Maria Brandauer and comedian Konrad Beikircher. In 2007 he will perform Die Winterreise with Thomas Quasthoff at the Salzburg Easter Festival.
Lars Vogt studied with Ruth Weiss (Aachen) and Prof Karl-Heinz Kämmerling
(Hanover). He lives near Cologne with his wife, the Russian composer Tatjana
Komarova and their young daughter, Isabelle.
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