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Martin Helmchen
12+ albums
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Martin Helmchen was born in Berlin in 1982. He received his first piano lessons at the age of six. From 1993 until graduating from school in 2000 he was a student of Galina Iwanzowa at the Hanns Eisler Academy in Berlin. After 2001, he studied with Arie Vardi at the “Hochschule für Musik und Theater” in Hannover. His career received its first major impulse after winning the Clara Haskil Competition in 2001. Orchestras with which Martin Helmchen has performed include: the Deutsche Sinfonie-Orchester Berlin, RSO Stuttgart, Bamberg Symphoniker, NHK Symphony Orchestra, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Royal Flemish Philharmonic, BBC Symphony Orchestra, and the chamber orchestras of Zurich, Amsterdam, Vienna, Lausanne, Cologne and Munich. He has worked with conductors such as Marek Janowski, Philippe Herreweghe, Marc Albrecht, Vladimir Jurowski, Jiri Kout, Bernhard Klee, and Lawrence Foster. Martin Helmchen has been a guest at the Ruhr Piano Festival, Kissinger Summer Festival, the Festivals in Lockenhaus, Jerusalem, Spoleto (Italy), the Rheingau Music Festival, the Spannungen Chamber-Music Festival in Heimbach, the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, the Schwetzinger Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein Festival, as well as the Marlboro Festival in Vermont (USA). Chamber music is a highly valued part of Martin Helmchen’s life, which he always includes in his performance programme. For years now, he has collaborated closely with Boris Pergamenschikow;
top songs
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Waldscenen, Op. 82: No. 9, Abschied (Farewell to the Forest)
6462No. 9. Abschied (Farewell to the Forest)
3743Diabelli Variations in C Major, Op. 120: Var. I. Alla marcia maestoso
1814II. Andante
1805Cello Sonata No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 38: I. Allegro non troppo
1696Arabeske in C major, Op. 18
16276 Moments musicaux, Op. 94, D. 780: No. 3, Allegro moderato
1628Soirées musicales, Op. 6: II. Notturno (Andante con moto)
1529No. 3 in F minor: Allegro moderato
14310II. Larghetto
123albums
Schumann: Symphonische Etüden, Op. 13 - Waldszenen, Op. 82 - Arabeske, Op. 18
Schumann: Novelleten & Gesänge der Frühe
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Robert Schumann : Symphonische Etüden, Op.13 - Waldszenen, Op.82 - Arabeske, Op.18
Beethoven: Diabelli Variations
Bach: Six Partitas
Schubert, F.: Piano Sonata No. 20, D. 959 / 6 Moments Musicaux, D. 780
Schubert, F.: Violin and Piano Music (Complete), Vol. 1
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Brahms: Cello Sonatas
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Concertos pour piano n°15, K450 et n°27, K595
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Robert Schumann: Waldszenen, Symphonische Etüden & Arabeske
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Mendelssohn: The Piano Concertos
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Schubert: Famous Pieces