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Marie-Luise Hinrichs
Pianist Marie-Luise Hinrichs of Cologne, Germany will play her very own solo piano arrangement of Giovanni Battista Pergolesi's famous masterpiece, "Stabat Mater" composed in 1736 during the last weeks of his short life at the age of 26. In the second half of the program, Marie-Luise will play keyboard sonatas by Padre Antonio Soler (1729-1783) and Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757), and her own piano arrangements of Gregorian chant-style pieces by Medieval German abbess Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179).
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MARIE-LUISE HINRICHS
Marie-Luise Hinrichs's playing is characterised by a calm, mellow feeling, never striking the keys with explosive power, but with a gentle, delicate, emotional, thoughtful, reverent touch, which comes directly from her personality. Born in Nürtingen, Germany in 1964, she fell in love with the piano at age 7, and got her first big break at age 14 as the understudy in rehearsals for pianist Stefan Askenase with Mozart's Piano Concerto KV 467, which she played shortly afterwards in public to great critical acclaim. After studying with Hubert Juhre and Ludger Maxsein at the Folkwang University in Essen, Yara Bernette at the Hamburg University of Music, Pavel Gililov at the Cologne University of Music and Renate Kretschmar-Fischer in Detmold, she became an internationally sought-after soloist. Her performance tours brought her to the USA, Australia, Spain, France, Germany, Norway, Italy, Israel, Syria and Lebanon. She has built a unique discography through her work with record labels EMI (now Warner), CPO and Raumklang, and German radio broadcasting companies SWR, SWR2, and WDR. Her love for the music of Spanish monk Padre Antonio Soler unintentionally established her as a groundbreaking interpreter of his music. Her outstanding Mozart CD, together with duo partner Christian Zacharias and the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, was nominated for a Cannes Classical Award. Her own piano arrangements of Gregorian-chant style compositions by Medieval German abbess and mystic Hildegard von Bingen, featured on her 2011 CD "Vocation," reached the German classical music charts. A documentary film portrait of this project was made in 2008. Since 2012 she has also been composing. In 2014 she founded her independent record label Angels Records, which showcases her own original compositions. Marie-Luise Hinrichs' projects were funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media as part of "NEUSTART KULTUR" in 2021. Marie-Luise currently lives in Cologne, and continues to teach, compose, arrange, make recordings, and pet and apologize to her cat Mia, who is jealous of the piano. marie-luise-hinrichs.com