Michael Endres, A feast of song inspired piano music

Name: Michael Endres, A feast of song inspired piano music
Start: 2025-09-18T09:30:00+12:00
Location: 141 Percival Street, Rangiora, New Zealand 7400

Schedule

Thu, 18 Sep, 2025 at 09:30 am

UTC+12:00

Location

141 Percival Street, Rangiora, New Zealand 7400 | Rangiora, CA

The piano as a singing instrument has inspired composers such as Liszt, Tschaikowsky and Gershwin to transcribe songs, originally composed for voice an piano to the piano. The second half of the programme contains a variety of these highly inspired transcriptions, featuring some of the most popular songs of the classic repertoire.
German Pianist Michael Endres performs worldwide as soloist and chamber music partner. He has won prizes such as the Concours Geza Anda (Zurich) and First & Special Prizes at the International Schubert Competition (Germany) among others.
His extensive prizewinning discography of 32 CD’s include cycles of the complete sonatas by Mozart, Schubert, Weber and the complete works of Ravel and Gershwin as well as works by Schumann.
Endres covers a wide repertoire including seldom played composers like Leopold Godowsky, Gabriel Faure, Charles Ives and Eduard Tubin. Leading US critic Richard Dyer from the Boston Globe called him ”one of the most interesting pianists recording today”, the New York Times wrote: ”the performances with pianist Michael Endres were revelatory” and the Gramophone Magazine stated: ”he is an outstanding Schubert interpreter”.
Michael Endres plays at festivals in Europe, America and Asia including Newport (USA), Beethoven Fest Bonn and Salzburg Festival, and has performed at the Berlin Philharmonie, Musikverein Vienna and Suntory Hall Tokyo, to name a few.
He accompanied legendary Baritone Hermann Prey for many years and partnered the Berlin Philharmonic soloists, the Artemis and Fine Arts String Quartets. He has a distinguished teaching career as Professor of Piano at the Cologne, the ”Hanns Eisler Hochschule” in Berlin, University of Canterbury, New Zealand and the “Barrat Due” Institute in Norway. He is living with his wife Susan and three cats in Waikuku, New Zealand.