Biography
Born in Stuttgart/Germany 1956 has studied at „Staatliche Hochschule für Musik“ in Freiburg/Germany under Prof.Robert Alexander Bohnke. Later he studied under Leontina Margulis and took masterclasses with Prof. Dr.Vitaly Margulis, Los Angeles. Stürmer has initiated close to 100 compositions from todays internationally reknown composers and was invited at international festivals and concert series where he first performed them:
Festival International de Piano La Roque d’Anthéron/Frankreich
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Donaueschinger Musiktage
Internationale Ferienkurse Darmstadt
Soundways Sankt Petersburg/Russia
Sonorities Belfast/North Ireland
Mostly Modern Dublin
Festspelen i Piteå/Schweden
„Pour le piano“ McGill University/Montréal
Music Gallery Toronto
„Piano cinq soleils“- Sociétè Française de Musique Contemporaine/Paris,
Invitation Concerts Royal Academy of Music/Stockholm
The Australian National University/Canberra
Experimentalstudio des SWR, Heinrich Strobel Stiftung/Freiburg
Lucero Festival Paris
Internationales Pianoforum Heilbronn
Münchner Biennale, Music in King’s Hall
University Newcastle upon Tyne
ABO-Konzerte Alte Oper Frankfurt RSO Frankfurt
Dresdner Tage der Neuen Musik
Ensemblia Mönchengladbach...etc.
Symphony orchestras have invited Ortwin Stürmer to premiere piano concertos which were written for him and dedicated to him :
On January 16th, 2011 he premiered Symphonic Piano Concerto No.1 by Gerhard Kaufmann with Northern Bohemian Philharmonic Orchestra under Alfonso Scarano at the Festival Hall of the University Tübingen/Germany
RTV Sinfonie Orchester Slovenia, production for ROSTRUM:
„Untempered“ by Igor Majcen under D.deVelliers
Göteborgs Symfoniker:
„Bona Spey“ by Jan Sandström under Gilbert Varga
Radio Sinfonie Orchester Frankfurt:
„The Quest“ by Horatiu Radulescu under Zagrosek
Göteborgs Symfoniker:
„Piano Concerto“ by Bengt Hambraeus under Okko Kamu
Northern Sinfonia of England:
„Piano Concerto“ by Stephen F.Ingham under R.Redgate
BBC Symphony Orchestra London:
„Zeitzeichen-Zeitmaße“, by E.H.Flammer under Lothar Zagrosek
SWR Sinfonie Orchester Baden-Baden u. Freiburg:
B.Hambraeus under Israel Yinon
RSO Frankfurt:
„Mind“ (Earth, Air) by Jukka Tiensuu under Sakari Oramo, European Broadcasting Union Concert (live broadcasted into
8 europ. countries), Alte Oper
RSO Saarbrücken:
„Phaeton“ von Claude Lenners under Gilbert Amy, European Broadcasting Union Concert (live broadcasted into 17 europ. countries)
SWF Sinfonieorchester Baden- Baden:
„Zeitzeichen – Zeitmaße“ by Ernst H. Flammer
2008 Ortwin Stürmer gave a piano recital at Eberhard Karls University Tübingen/Germany (New Music in Talk) with works by Wolfgang Rihm, which were introduced by the composer himself.
Ortwin Stürmer has recorded chamber music by Benjamin Dwyer together with Catherine Leonard/Dublin, Violin and works also by Horst Lohse with Valery Rubin/New York, Violin und Martin Timphus/Bamberg, Viola. He also played some premieres of contemporary chamber music with Ensemble Recherche under Johannes Schöllhorn, conductor.
His recordings by German and international radio stations, as his CD-releases are frequently broadcasted worldwide. (ABC Syndney, BBC London, CBC Toronto, Radio France Musique Paris, Radio Suisse Romande Genéve, KPFA FM94 Berkeley/San Francisco, Deutsche Welle International, Radio-Television Santiago de Chile, etc....).
CD – recordings at ARS MUSICI, CPO, COL LEGNO, CAVALLI RECORDS received in international music magazins and internet ratings highest distinctions:
Le Monde de la Musique, CHOC - Paris
Repertoire des Disque, R10 - Paris
Crescendo, JOKER - Bruxelles
Diapason 5Y - Paris
Fanfare – New York
Gramaphone-London
The Wire - London
Le Temps - Genéve
Die Zeit
Musical Pointers, London
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Meanwhile Ortwin Stürmer has opened up the concert series „Universe“ (Cosmos and music) in which he already has premiered at different concert venues, piano works by composers such as Claude Lenners (Luxembourg), Alexander Radvilovitsch (Sankt Petersburg), Bryn Harrison (London), Franz Jochen Herfert (Stuttgart/Budapest), Werner Heider (Erlangen), Volker Blumenthaler (Nürnberg), Igor Majcen (Freiburg/Maribor), Justin Lépany (Paris/Berlin) and others.
His working field covers also master classes, seminars, guest lectures: Mc Gill University Montreal, University of Adelaide, National University of Australia, Roay Academy of Music Stockholm, University Lulea/Pitea, Sweden (Guest Professorship), University Kassel.
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