CHRISTIAN KOHN

Christian Köhn was born in Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia, and studied in Dortmund with Joseph Matthias Blome and in Detmold with Renate Kretschmar-Fischer. He won prizes in the Hamburg Steinway Piano Competition, and the Dortmund International Schubert Competition, with awards from the Hamburg Oscar-und-Vera-Ritter-Stiftung and the Bonn German Music Competition. His career has taken him as soloist and recitalist to various countries of Europe and the Near East. At the Musikhochschule Detmold he is an assistant professor of piano, and is the editor of Brahms Four Hand Piano Music, published by Bärenreiter.

Christian Köhn and Silke-Thora Matthies came together in 1986 to form a piano duo and played their first concert in public the last day of October 1988. As a duo the two players have won wide acclaim, with international prizes, and appearances in recital and as soloists. They broadcast regularly and have been responsible for a number of first performances of music by notable contemporary composers. They have held international masterclasses for piano duo and duet playing. In addition to their recordings of Brahms for Naxos, they have also recorded works by Dvořák and Giselher Klebe.

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