Amadeus Wiesensee

“Amadeus Wiesensee is an unusual young musician, with an equilibrium of intellectual and pianistic brilliance. He has abundant talent for both, and he has cultivated each of them systematically and rigorously, pursuing philosophical and musical studies side by side. The result is an extraordinarily interesting musical mind, and a formidable analytical capacity enriched by a strong artistic intuition. I expect remarkably original and important accomplishments from him in the future.” — Matti Raekallio, The Juilliard School

At the age of eight, Amadeus Wiesensee became a pupil of Prof. Thomas Böckheler at the Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich, and in 2007 he became a junior student with Prof. Karl-Heinz Kämmerling at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. In 2013, after Kämmerling’s death, he continued his studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Munich with Prof. Antti Siirala. Having finished the Bachelor and Master degree programmes, Amadeus continued his studies as part of the Master degree programme for contemporary music. He was also a scholarship holder of Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now Munich, Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, the Jürgen Ponto Stiftung, Carl Bechstein Stiftung and the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben.

He gave his debut with the Münchner Rundfunkorchester at the age of 12. In June 2019 the Süddeutsche Zeitung praised his performance of Brahms’ B major piano trio with Arabella Steinbacher as “poetic and ecstatic at world-class level” and wrote on occasion of his opening recital of Nymphenburger Sommer: “This young man has an almost uncanny sense of the dark places, the veiled spaces, the contemplative and its shadings. He is far from content with brilliantly illuminating the foreground of the pieces; the musical process allows him to give access, so to speak, to the echo chambers and fields of association that lie behind them. At its most exalted moments it seems as if one can explore the music as a three-dimensional environment.”

Amadeus Wiesensee’s second great passion alongside the piano is philosophy – a subject he simultaneously studied at the Munich School of Philosophy until July 2015, receiving the Bachelor of Arts degree with highest distinction. He is a regular speaker and pianist at Heidelberg University as part of the Heidelberg Lectures on Cultural Theory.

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