Klaus Hellwig (born 3 August 1941) is a German pianist and academic teacher.

Life and career

Born in

Essen Essen () is the central and, after Dortmund, second-largest city of the Ruhr, the largest urban area in Germany. Its population of makes it the fourth-largest city of North Rhine-Westphalia after Cologne, Düsseldorf and Dortmund, as well as ...

,Axel Schniederjürgen (publisher): ''Kürschners Musiker-Handbuch''. 5th edition

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, 2006, Hellwig studied with

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in Essen and Pierre Sancan in Paris as well as in master classes with

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and

Wilhelm Kempff Wilhelm Walter Friedrich Kempff (25 November 1895 – 23 May 1991) was a German pianist, teacher and composer. Although his repertoire included Bach, Mozart, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt and Brahms, Kempff was particularly well known for his interp ...

and has won prizes at international competitions. He has performed as a soloist worldwide, among others in Europe, the US, Brazil, Australia and Asia with renowned orchestras such as the

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, the

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (, BRSO) is a German radio orchestra. Based in Munich, Germany, it is one of the city's four orchestras. The BRSO is one of two full-size symphony orchestras operated under the auspices of Bayerischer Rundf ...

, the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, the

WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne The WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne (German: WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln) is a German radio orchestra based in Cologne, where the orchestra performs at two main concert halls: the WDR Funkhaus Wallrafplatz and the Kölner Philharmonie. Histo ...

, the

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, the Philharmonia Hungarica and the Krakauer Philharmonie. As

chamber music Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of Musical instrument, instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a Great chamber, palace chamber or a large room. Most broadly, it includes any art music ...

ian, he founded the "Berlin Trio" with Christiane Edinger and Lluís Claret, and performed together among others with the wind players of the Berliner Philharmonic, the Philharmonischen Streichoktett Berlin as well as the octett of the

Cleveland Orchestra The Cleveland Orchestra is an American orchestra based in Cleveland, Ohio. Founded in 1918 by the pianist and impresario Adella Prentiss Hughes, the orchestra is one of the five American orchestras informally referred to as the " Big Five". T ...

.Klaus Hellwig (Piano)
on Bach Cantatas Website As professor of piano, Hellwig taught from 1970 to 1980 at the Folkwang-Hochschule Essen and since 1980 at the

Berlin University of the Arts The Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK; also known in English as the Berlin University of the Arts), situated in Berlin, Germany, is the second largest art school in Europe. It is a public art and design school, and one of the four research uni ...

. He also gives master classes worldwide and is a jury member at international competitions. He has released numerous records and CDs and has made recordings with German radio stations.

References

External links

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Klaus Hellwig
on Allmusic * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hellwig, Klaus German classical pianists German male classical pianists Academic staff of the Berlin University of the Arts 1941 births Living people Musicians from Essen