Composer & Pianist
17th February 2024: Festival Concert of the Neustadt Symphony Orchestra (conductor: Jürgen Weißer): Concerto for piano and orchestra No. 1 in B-flat minor op. 23 by Piotr Ilych Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
New video on querstand:
Review by Markus Pacher in „DIE RHEINPFALZ“:
Second Tango-Concerto
for piano, bandoneon and strings
Lyric pieces from the years of transformation for solo-cello and chamber orchestra
(first performance 12 years ago)
Video-shooting with Kamprad Media / querstand records in the Orangerie of Altenburg
creating a music-video together with Tango-dancers about Paraphrases de Tango sur des mélodies de Carlos Gardel / No. 6 („Paraphrase de concert sur VOLVIO UNA NOCHE“)
TANGO-CONCERTO with LSO
15th / 16th / 17th September 2023
Symphony concert „60th anniversary of Leipzig Symphony Orchestra“
Hannes Pohlit – piano / Leipzig Symphony Orchestra / Robbert van Stejn – conductor / Angela Sallat & Andreas Küttner – dancers
Continue reading “September 2023”World Premiere of TANGO-CONCERTO
27th August 2023, 11.00 / Tagebau Profen (Open Air – Event)
Hannes Pohlit – piano / Leipzig Symphony Orchestra / Robbert van Stejn – conductor
Continue reading “August 2023”Again in Norway to perform together with Espen Melbø (at the organ as „orchestra“) a series of concerts in churches of Norway: in this year with Edvard Grieg‘s Piano Concerto in A minor and the 1st movement of Hannes Pohlit‘s Tango-Concerto. Thank you Espen!
CD-release:
PARAPHRASES DE TANGO
Nos. 1 – 12
Hannes Pohlit – Piano
Festival program booklet
The Leipzig Symphony Orchestra has published the booklet about the festival weeks in August and September 2023 regarding its 60th anniversary. Hannes Pohlit’s Tango-Concerto is one of two composition commissions for this festival and will be presented in four concerts in an extraordinary staging with Tango-dancers.
A series of concerts in churches of Norway with Rachmaninoff’s 2nd piano concerto and Moszkowski’s 2nd piano concerto – accompanied by Espen Melbø as “orchestra” on large Cathedral organs.
TANGO-CONCERTO for piano and orchestra
As a commission by the Leipzig Symphony Orchestra (Artistic Director: Wolfgang Rögner), Hannes Pohlit will compose a piano concerto which will be performed in the festival week to the orchestra’s 60th anniversary in 2023, presenting the composer himself on the piano (15th, 16th and 17th September 2023) as well as the world-renowned, Australia-based pianist Andreas Boyde as the soloist (25th August 2023).
Visiting professor for piano at the Conservatorio Benedetto Marcello Venezia:
Masterclass and Recital in the Sala Concerti
CD-release:
THE HOUR OF SPIRITS
Hannes Pohlit – Piano
plays Henze, Enescu and Liszt
New edition of
LES LUMIÈRES DE LA NUIT
(Two nocturnes for piano trio, 2014)
Friedrich Hofmeister Music Publisher, Leipzig
FH 3557, ISMN: 9790203435570
CD recordings for the label QUERSTAND at the Bluethner Model Nr. 2 in the Media Campus Leipzig
Hans Werner Henze – Lucy Escott Variations
George Enescu – Sonata No. 1
Franz Liszt / arr. Ferruccio Busoni – Fantasy and Fugue on the choral »Ad nos, ad salutarem undam«
as well as:
Hannes Pohlit – Paraphrases de Tango sur des mélodies de Carlos Gardel
SWR 2 Broadcast »Meeting Point Classic extra« (in German)
guest: Hannes Pohlit (moderator: Dr. Burkhard Egdorf)
Radio-portrait with excerpts from Hannes Pohlit’s works:
Sonatina for violin and piano
Il Vento (Orchestra of the NRCM Manchester, conductor: Roland Böer)
Nel Fiume eterno (Ravel-Ensemble of the Dortmund Philharmonic, Martin Bewersdorff – Basset clarinet)
Twelve Pieces to Goethe’s »Faust« (Thueringen Symphony Orchestra)
Humanité (Stefan Arzberger – violin, Simon Reichert – organ)
Hannes Pohlit as Composer in residence at the 39th Cantiere Internazionale d’Arte Montepulciano
World premiere of “Il Vento” (Sinfonietta for large orchestra)
