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The pianist Konstanze Eickhorst is not a musician who is easily pigeonholed: she is a soloist, a chamber musician and a teacher. \u201cThese are the three pillars on which my musical life is built,\u201d she said in a recently broadcast interview. She was a pupil of Karl-Heinz K\u00e4mmerling in Hanover and Vlado Perlemuter in Paris. Joachim Kaiser has praised her not only for her \u201cimmaculate command of piano technique\u201d, but also for the \u201cintensity of expression\u201d that is her particular hallmark. The jury at the renowned Clara Haskil Competition thought so too, as did the jury of the G\u00e9za Anda Competition, at both of which she won first prize. She has also won prizes at the Toronto Bach Competition (in memoriam Glenn Gould) and at Belgium\u2019s Concours Reine Elisabeth. She appears at many leading international festivals, including Lucerne, Montreux, Salzburg, Ravinia (Chicago) and Berlin. She has also performed with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Toronto Symphony, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Tonhalle Orchestra of Zurich and others, with conductors such as Christoph Eschenbach, Andrew Davis, Peter Schneider, Manfred Honeck and Ingo Metzmacher. She has been privileged to work in a solo capacity with S\u00e1ndor V\u00e9gh and Ferdinand Leitner. She is a member of the Linos Ensemble, which performs in combinations ranging from duo to nonet in concert halls throughout the world and has numerous awards and CD recordings to its credit. Her strong interest in merging music and literature led to close collaboration with the late actor Karl Michael Vogler. Since 2010 she has performed with the actor Johanna Gastdorf. Alongside her activities as a solo pianist, Konstanze Eickhorst sees it as her mission to transmit the fruit of her experience to the younger generation of pianists. She was one of the youngest professors in the story of German music-academies when, in 1989, she embarked on her successful teaching career at the Hochschule f\u00fcr Musik und Theater in Hanover. In 1998 the Musikhochschule L\u00fcbeck invited her to join its staff. Amongst her other activities Konstanze Eickhorst conducts master-classes for soloists and ensembles at the Acad\u00e9mie Internationale d\u2019\u00e9t\u00e9 and is a jury member at national and international competitions. She has chaired the European Piano Competition at Bremen since 2007 and is in addition a member of the artistic organising committee.<\/p>\n
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