Severin von Eckardstein
Severin von Eckardstein is managed in the Benelux by Ydeleine Berntsen.
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Severin von Eckardstein has an already lengthy record of solo concerts and concerto performances on major stages around the world.
He has performed many highly acclaimed concerts in, amongst others, Berlin, Moscow, Madrid, London, Paris, New York, Amsterdam, Budapest, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Seoul and played at many reknown music festivals, including Klavier-Festival Ruhr, La Roque d’Anthéron in France, Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival and the Miami International Piano Festival, where he played the opening concert in 2009.
He has worked with conductors such as Valery Gergiev, Philippe Herreweghe, Lothar Zagrosek and Marek Janowski, and made important debuts, among others in 2007 with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and Paavo Järvi, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jaap van Zweden in 2012 and the Hungarian National Philharmony together with Zsolt Hamar in 2017. During the European lockdown in November 2020 he debuted with Mariinsky Orchestra conducted by Valery Gergiev and the Ural Philhamonic in Yekaterinburg, Russia.
As a frequent guest of the serie Meesterpianisten / Master Pianists series at the Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, von Eckardstein opened the gala concert celebrating the series’ 25th anniversary in 2012. In 2020 he was reinvited to the series for the 8th time.
He won prizes at numerous noteworthy international competitions, such as Ferruccio Busoni in Bozen (1998), Leeds International Piano Competition (2000), ARD-Competition in Munich (1999) and was awarded first prize at the Concours Reine Elisabeth in Brussels (2003). In 2002 he received the European Culture Prize and in 2003 the Echo Classic Prize. On several occasions he has been awarded special prizes for the Best interpretation of contemporary music.
Von Eckardstein‘s versatile repertoire spans from the baroque period to the 21st century. One of his special focuses is the demanding late romantic piano music of less known composers, especially Nicolai Medtner.
Chamber music also plays a significant role in his repertoire with performances at festivals such as the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival, Finland, Delft Chamber Music Festival, The Netherlands, and the Risør Chamber Music Festival, Norway, where he appeared with cellist Heinrich Schiff. He has often given concerts with young and upcoming artists as well as highly renowned musicians, such as Andrej Bielov, Barnabás Kelemen, Isang Enders and Nicolas Altstaedt.
In 2015 he founded the chamber concert series “Klangbrücken” at Konzerthaus Berlin together with violinist Franziska Hölscher.
CD recordings with compositions by Medtner, Scriabin, Wagner, Schubert, Schumann, Debussy and others are highly regarded. His latest album of Dupont´s cycle “La maison dans les dunes” was awarded with “Diapason d´Or”. Two new recordings of sonatas by Prokofiev and works by Schumann and Jensen will be released soon.
Von Eckardstein was born in 1978 in Düsseldorf. His education in the musical arts was predominately shaped by his teachers Prof. Barbara Szczepanska, Prof. Karl-Heinz Kämmerling and Prof. Klaus Hellwig, University of Arts, Berlin, where he also successfully completed his studies (Konzertexamen). In an additional course of study at the International Piano Academy Lake Como, Italy, he profited from further instruction and inspiration. He took private lessons from teachers such as Alfred Brendel and participated in master classes of Vitalij Margulis, Karl Ulrich Schnabel, Alicia de Larrocha, Leon Fleisher and Menahem Pressler, to name only a few.
He himself has been serving as master class instructor on many occasions, among others in South Korea, Finland, Belgium and at the “UdK”, Berlin.
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