New Release: Echoes from Chrysospilia

The time has come and my new album "Echoes from Chrysospilia" is now available! The album was recorded in St. Laurenzen and contains new organ and piano music by me as well as an impressive organ work from Franz Liszt's last creative phase. 

The recording team of Cornelius Claudio Kreusch, Hans-Martin Buff and Ed Reed did a great job and created a full, warm and at the same time transparent sound, and the pictures by Andi Dietrich are small masterpieces that already visually lead into the world of music.

Further information with ordering options is available here.
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1st Classical & Crossover Festival in Ottobrunn

One goal of this fine festival is to present a wide range of different styles to the audience. My program included “Ouessant” and “Echoes from Chrysospilia” from my new album as well as the enchanting “Recueillement” by Franz Liszt from “Liszt & The Black Hills”. A great evening with a great audience!

Photos: Klaus-Reiner Blümel / Ottobrunner Konzerte.

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Culture Award 2017 of the City of St. Gallen

One of this year's sponsorship awards for culture from the city of St. Gallen goes to me - a great pleasure, a great honor and a great incentive!

The official award ceremony will take place at a public celebration on Monday, November 13, 2017, at 6 p.m. at the Palace in St. Gallen.

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Photo: Andi Dietrich

Beethoven A Tempo

Music is an art form that creates a different experience of time. Different ways of timing and different uses of tempo bring out the character of a work in very different ways. A still new research explores tempo in classical music and asks what the understanding of tempo was when a work was composed. Surprising insights come to light.

Beethoven’s Cello Sonata in G minor is the focus of this lunchtime concert. Esther Saladin and I will interpret it inspired by sources from Beethoven’s time. Today’s listening habits are challenged, and it is astonishing how Beethoven’s masterpiece gains in drama and expression…

St. Laurenzen Church, Wednesday, May 3, 2017.

Photo: Heidy Lang