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 Steffen Schleiermacher - biography
Steffen Schleiermacher, studied piano (Gerhard Erber), composition (Siegfried Thiele, Friedrich Schenker), and conducting (Günter Blumhagen) at the Conservatory Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy in Leipzig.
Steffen Schleiermacher has been a freelance composer and pianist since 1988. As a pianist he focuses exclusively on music of the twentieth century. He has concertized as a soloist with various orchestras, such as the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Münchner Philharmonikern, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. Concert tours have taken him to numerous European countries, to North and South America and the Far East.
In 1989 he founded the Ensemble Avantgarde. He has presented the Musica Nova series at the Leipzig Gewandhaus since 1989 and has led the January Festival at the Museum of the Plastic Arts in Leipzig since 1991.
Schleiermacher´s numerous prizes (Gaudeamus Competition 1985, Hanns Eisler Prize of the East German Radio 1989, Mendelssohn Fellowship of the East German Ministry of Culture 1988, Fellowship of the Kulturfond Foundation 1992-94, 1997, Fellowship of the German Academy at the Villa Massimo in Rome 1992, Japan Foundation Fellowship 1997, Fellowship of the Cité des Arts in Paris). 2002 master classes at Julliard School about Cage.
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