Karl-Heinz Kämmerling (6 May 1930 – 14 June 2012) was a notable German academic teacher of classical pianists, who trained pianists at the

Mozarteum Mozarteum University Salzburg ( German: ''Universität Mozarteum Salzburg'') is one of three affiliated but separate (it is actually a state university) entities under the "Mozarteum" name in Salzburg municipality; the International Mozarteu ...

in Salzburg and the

Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media (, abbreviated to HMTMH) is a university of performing arts and media in Hanover, the capital of Lower Saxony, Germany. Dating to , it has reorganised and changed names as it developed over the years, ...

for careers as performers and academic teachers, particularly in the early training of highly gifted students.

Career

Kämmerling was born in

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and studied at the Hochschule für Musik Leipzig with Anton Rohden and Hugo Steurer. Besides teaching as a professor at the Mozarteum and in Hannover, he became a guest professor at the university of music in

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in 2004 and taught master classes in Europe, the United States and Asia. Among his students are Amir Tebenikhin, Wenyu Shen,

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Valentina Babor Valentina Babor (born 8 July 1989) is a German classical pianist. She began performing before audiences and winning youth competitions as a child. At 12, she was accepted by Karl-Heinz Kämmerling at the Mozarteum, where she became part of the un ...

, Thomas Duis, Severin von Eckardstein, Henriette Gaertner, Bernd Goetzke, Konstanze Eickhorst, Michail Lifits, Philippe Giusiano, Peter Ovtcharov, Sophie Pacini, Oliver Kern,

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, Herbert Schuch, Márton Illés, Yu Kosuge, Kristin Merscher, Matthew Odell, Alice Sara Ott, Aaron Pilsan, Ragna Schirmer, , Aaron Pilsan and

Lars Vogt Lars Vogt (8 September 1970 – 5 September 2022) was a German classical pianist, conductor and academic teacher. Noted by ''The New York Times'' for his interpretations of Johannes Brahms, Brahms, Vogt performed as a soloist with major orchestr ...

. When he celebrated his 80th birthday, 80 of his students had won national competitions, 50 had won international competitions, and 21 were academic teachers. He was particularly active in the early training of highly gifted students at the "Institut zur Früh-Förderung Hochbegabter" at the Hochschule in Hannover. He served as a vice president of the university for six years. Kämmerling was one of the editors of the journal "Üben und Musizieren" (Practice and Music-Making) and the founder and long-term president of the German Association of the European Piano Teachers Association. He was a member of the

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, the Deutsche Studienstiftung, and a member of the "Instituts für Begabungsforschung in der Musik" (Institute for the research of musical talent) at the

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. In 1979 he was a co-founder of the " Internationale Musikakademie für Solisten" (International Music Academy for Soloists, IMAS) and was its artistic director until 2010. He served on the jury of international piano competitions such as The Leeds, the Arthur Rubinstein Competitions in Tel Aviv and in Dresden, and the

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Awards

Kämmerling received the prize Niedersachsenpreis in 1985. Since 1999 he was an Officer of the

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. In 2000 he was awarded the Grand Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria. He was an honorary member of Deutscher Musikrat (German Music Council, a member of the

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), since 2005.

References

External links

Karl-Heinz Kämmerling
International Piano Competition Shanghai {{DEFAULTSORT:Kammerling, Karl-Heinz German male classical pianists Academic staff of the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover Academic staff of Mozarteum University Salzburg German piano educators 1930 births 2012 deaths People from Dessau-Roßlau Officers Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany Recipients of the Grand Decoration for Services to the Republic of Austria 20th-century German classical pianists 20th-century German male musicians