Yorck Kronenberg

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Yorck Kronenberg, born 1973 in Reutlingen, is successful both as pianist and author. Yorck Kronenberg, born 1973 in Reutlingen, studied piano with Konrad Elser and composition with Friedhelm Döhl. Yorck Kronenberg has won several competition prizes, was among other things winner of the Johann Sebastian Bach Competition in Saarbrücken. He gave concerts at music festivals like the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Schwetzinger Festspielen, Mainz Music Summer and Mosel Festival. Juror on various musical panels and at competitions (Jugend Musiziert, Bach Competition Saarbrücken 2001). Yorck Kronenberg has played on several CD recordings, among which is one for Sony with Beethoven's Sonata Opus 111 and Schubert's Sonata D 960 on a C. Bechstein concert grand piano. At the same time, Yorck Kronenberg also works successfully as author.

 

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Yorck Kronenberg plays Beethoven and Schubert

Yorck Kronenberg plays Beethoven and Schubert

In May 2004, as Yorck Kronenberg recorded Beethoven's Opus 111 and Schubert's last sonata in RBB's small recording studio on the C. Bechstein concert grand piano located there, he became linked to the great school of German pianists ranging from Backhaus to Kempff. "A new CD, which for me is one of the most remarkable piano recordings that I have heard recently," Michael Stegemann estimated correctly in SWR_2_Plattenprisma: "Calm and tranquility, breathing and tension, colorful and varied playing--a music of stillness and reversal. ... I think there is still much to be expected of Yorck Kronenberg."

Yorck Kronenberg at Berlin's C. Bechstein Center

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