Piano
Biography:
MARKUS HINTERHÄUSER, born in La Spezia (Italy), studied piano at the University of Music in Vienna, at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and in master classes e.g. with Elisabeth Leonskaja and Oleg Maisenberg. As a pianist, Hinterhäuser has performed both as a soloist and in chamber concerts in the most important concert halls and at internationally renowned festivals.
In recent years Markus Hinterhäuser has concentrated on the interpretation of contemporary music, in particular he has been involved in the work of Luigi Nono, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Morton Feldman and György Ligeti. In addition to numerous radio and television recordings, he recorded the entire piano works of Schönberg, Berg and Webern as well as compositions by Feldman, Nono, Scelsi, Ustvolskaya and Cage on CD. In the recent past, Hinterhäuser has repeatedly taken part in musical theater productions by Christoph Marthaler, Johan Simons and Klaus Michael Grüber.
Together with Tomas Zierhofer-Kin he won as a co-founder of the series of events flow of time, which took place as part of the Salzburg Festival from 1993 to 2001, and as the artistic director of the project time zone international renown in cultural management at the Wiener Festwochen. Since October 2006, Markus Hinterhäuser has been responsible for the concert program of the Salzburg Festival, of which he was artistic director in 2011.
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