Albrecht Hartmann

Pianist Albrecht Hartmann has a tremendous repertoire of music from five centuries at his fingertips. In recent years, he has grappled particularly intensively with issues of historically informed performance at historical keyboard instruments, resulting in a number of recordings for both radio and CD. Concert tours have seen him travel to Hungary, Poland, France, and the USA. Hartmann received his first musical training at the conservatoire ‘Georg Friedrich Händel’ at Halle/Saale, and he won prizes at national competitions from a very early age. Between 1981 and 1987, he studied piano with Prof. Günter Kootz at the Hochschule für Musik ‘Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy’ in Leipzig. Moreover, he has attended master classes with professors Rudolf Fischer, Amadeus Webersinke, Rudolf Kehrer, and Bernhard Ringeissen. As recently as the 1990s, he was awarded prizes as a soloist and a chamber musician at international competitions, among them the Internationaler Johann-Sebastian-Bach Wettbewerb Leipzig, the Internationaler Klavierwettbewerb Köln (1989), and the international chamber music competition at Florence (1990). Hartmann teaches piano, Lied accompaniment, and chamber music at the music department of the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg. At the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Leipzig, he teaches repetiteurship. On the present recording, Hartmann can be heard playing a copy of a fortepiano by Johann Andreas Stein (Augsburg 1788).