Christopher Hinterhuber piano

Programme

Ludwig van Beethoven

10 variations on La stessa, la stessisima from the opera Falstaff by Antonio Salieri for piano in B flat major WoO 73

Johann Strauss

Music box polka (Arr. Otto Schulhof)

Leopold Mordkhelovich Godowsky Sr.

Symphonic metamorphoses on the operetta The bat from Johann Strauss

Johann Strauss

Pizzicato Polka (Arr. Otto Schulhof)

Maurice Ravel

La Valse

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Franz Schubert

Sonata in G major D 894

I. Molto moderato e cantabile in G major

II Andante in D major

III. Menuetto: Allegro moderato - Trio in B flat minor

IV. Allegretto in G major

Christopher Hinterhuber is not simply one of the most brilliant piano virtuosos of our time. Analytical flair, musical immediacy and dramaturgical intuition balance each other out in a programme of variations that rivals extreme alpine sports.
Christoph Schlüren

Both through his recordings, which have been Naxos, Wergo, Camerata Tokyo and Paladino as well as his worldwide concert activities, Christopher Hinterhuber has established himself internationally as a pianist with an enormous range.

His teachers were Axel Papenberg at the Conservatory Klagenfurt as well as Rudolf Kehrer, Avo Kouyoumdjian and Heinz Medjimorec at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, further studies followed in the Accademia pianistica "Incontri col Maestro" in Imola, Italy with Lazar Berman and Leonid Margarius. He owes important artistic inspiration to Oleg Maisenberg and Vladimir Ashkenazy, among others.

As a prizewinner of international competitions in Leipzig (Bach), Saarbrücken (Bach), Pretoria (Unisa), Zurich (Geza Anda) and Vienna (Beethoven), Christopher Hinterhuber has regularly performed at major festivals such as the Schleswig-Holstein Festival, the Ruhr Piano Festival, the Lockenhaus Chamber Music Festival, the Styriarte in Graz, the Carinthian Summer in Ossiach with conductors such as Vladimir Ashkenazy, Yakov Kreizberg, Sylvain Cambreling, Kirill Karabits, Jakub Hrusa, Christian Arming Bruno Weil, Andrés Orozco Estrada, Dennis Russell Davies, Bertrand de Billy, Ari Rasilainen, Adrian Leaper, Howard Griffiths, Hubert Soudant, Alfred Eschwé or Beat Furrer and orchestras such as the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Klangforum Vienna, the Viennese and Zurich Chamber Orchestra, the MDR Orchestra Leipzig, the Weimar State Orchestra, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, the Orchestre Philharmonique Luxembourg et al.

A special project was the recording in sound (Schubert, Rachmaninov, Schönberg) and image (Christopher Hinterhuber's hands) for the French-Austrian film The piano player after Elfriede Jelinek, directed by Michael Haneke (awarded with the Grand Jury Prize in Cannes 2001).

Chamber music is an important part of Christopher Hinterhuber's work, and he is a member of the Altenberg Trio Viennawhich has its own cycle in the Vienna Musikverein plays. Radio and television recordings for ORF, DRS2, NHK, SWR and others round off his artistic activities and emphasise his outstanding standing among the younger generation of Austrian pianists.

Christopher Hinterhuber is professor of piano at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.

Organised by C. Bechstein/Ehrbar Saal. Tickets can be purchased in advance and at the box office at the following prices: € 45,- (Cat. 1), € 35,- (Cat. 2, wheelchair space), € 10,- (pupils and students up to 27)