Henriette Gaertner
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Henriette Gaertner is a German
Germans
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 pianist
Pianist
A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers.-Choice of genres:...

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The Schneider Book of Records once referred to Henriette Gärtner as "the youngest concert pianist in the world", after she attracted international attention at the International Musical Festival Lucerne as an eight-year-old.
Meanwhile Henriette Gärtner enjoys excellent repute on the international stage.

Henriette's musical talent became apparent at an unusual early age; she began playing the piano already as a three-year-old, and just two years later she gave her first major concert in Stuttgart.
In the following years, Henriette Gärtner won a series of piano competitions, lastly the International Master Players Competition in Swiss Lugano, whereupon an associated concert tour of the USA followed.
She supplemented her artistic training with master courses taught by renowned maestros like Rudolf Buchbinder
Rudolf Buchbinder
Rudolf Buchbinder is an Austrian classical pianist.-Biography:Buchbinder studied with Bruno Seidlhofer at the Vienna Academy of Music. In 1965 he made a tour of North and South America. In 1966 he won a special prize awarded at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition...

, Viktor Merzhanov, Christian Zacharias
Christian Zacharias
-Music career:Zacharias studied piano with Irene Slavin and Vlado Perlemuter in Paris. He won the Geneva Competition in 1969 and the Van Cliburn Competition in 1973. After winning the Ravel Competition in Paris in 1975, he launched an international career...

, Peter Feuchtwanger and 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...

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Since that time a vigorous concert activity has followed, which led Henriette Gärtner to the musical centers of Europe. Added to that were further invitations from renowned orchestras under conductors such as Karl Münchinger, Rudolf Baumgartner, Petr Altrichter, Thomas Kalb, Richard Schumacher, Thomas Koncz, Howard Griffiths, Elyakum Shapirra, Gerd Albrecht and Edmond de Stoutz.

From 2001 until 2005 Henriette Gärtner studied at the "Incontri col Maestro" in Imola with Leonid Margarius, pupil of Vladimir Horowitz
Vladimir Horowitz
Vladimir Samoylovich Horowitz    was a Russian-American classical virtuoso pianist and minor composer. His technique and use of tone color and the excitement of his playing were legendary. He is widely considered one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century.-Life and early...

' sister Regina. Furthermore she was admitted to "Scuola Pianistica di perfezionamento L. Margarius" in 2003.

Repeatedly Henriette Gärtner was invited to St. Martin in the Fields, London
London
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, and to St. James's Piccadilly, London, by the European Beethoven Society. Besides, she played for the Associazione Mozart Italia and the Robert-und-Clara-Schumann-Gesellschaft Leipzig.

In 2009 Henriette Gärtner released her fourth CD "Imperial" with music by Beethoven and Schubert.

Discography

  • Baba Yaga (2011 CD)
  • Imperial (2009 CD)
  • Kontraste (2002 CD)
  • Faszination Musik (1998 CD)
  • Die Pianistin mit Werken von… (1996 CD)
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