JAN GERDES KLAVIER SOLO

In the organizer's words:

Jan Gerdes with his new program - more information coming soon

Pianist Jan Gerdes is one of the most interesting and versatile musicians of his generation. As an award-winning pianist between tradition and avant-garde, he masters both the classical-romantic and the contemporary repertoire. In his versatile recital programs, for example, he plays Bach's Goldberg Variations as well as Karlheinz Stockhausen's piano pieces.

Jan Gerdes studied piano and percussion at the conservatories in Hanover and Detmold with professors Kurt Bauer, Nerine Barett and Renate Kretschmar-Fischer and attended master classes with other renowned pianists such as Anatol Ugorski, Halina Czerny-Stefanska and Edith Picht-Axenfeld. An international concert career has taken the award-winning artist to many European countries, South America and the Far East. He has made guest appearances at almost all renowned national and international festivals and performed in major concert halls such as the Berlin Konzerthaus, Cologne Philharmonie, Essen Philharmonie, Vienna Konzerthaus, Freiburg Konzerthaus, Düsseldorf Tonhalle Alte Oper Frankfurt and Berlin Philharmonie.

In spring 2022, Jan Gerdes recorded the complete works for piano by Düsseldorf composer Johannes Sandberger.
Gerdes has worked with some of the leading contemporary composers such as Karlheinz Stockhausen, Wolfgang Rihm, Helmut Lachenmann and Peter Ruzicka and has premiered many other works by renowned composers such as Sidney Corbett, Peter Gahn, Brice Pauset, Moritz Eggert, Annette Schlünz, Markus Bongartz, Marcus Antonius Wesselmann and many more.

Jan Gerdes lives in Berlin and teaches piano at the Institute for Aesthetic Education at the University of Potsdam and has also played a key role in the development of the new major course in "Digital Sound Design" at the same institute. He also teaches improvisation and "Piano + Digital Instrument". He has also taught contemporary piano music for major students at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music Berlin and the Mozarteum Salzburg, improvisation at the Mannheim University of Music, contemporary song at the Detmold University of Music and new/experimental music at the University of Potsdam.