Birgitta Wollenweber

* in Germany; pianist and university teacher; studied in Detmold and at the Royal Academy of Music in London; professor of piano at the HfM Hanns Eisler Berlin; recordings of forgotten Romantic works. From 1981 to 1990 she studied at the Musikhochschule Detmold with Renate Kretschmar-Fischer and took her Konzertexamen there; a scholarship from the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst enabled her to spend the study year 1988/89 in London with Peter Wallfish. She won the Chopin competitions in Cologne and Darmstadt, received the Joy Scott Prize in London and was honoured at the Concurs Internacional Maria Canals in Barcelona and at the Deutscher Musikwettbewerb. In 1994 she moved from Cologne to Berlin. Since 2003 she has been professor of piano and chamber music at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin, where she heads the piano programme; from September 2014 to May 2015, as First Vice-President, she also carried out the duties of the President. She has appeared at the Rheingau Musik Festival, the Beethovenfest Bonn and the Kunstfest Weimar. Three albums connect her with Cybele, and all three are devoted to the music of Michael Denhoff. On the portrait album of 1997 and on the cello in my life (2003) she is heard at his side as a chamber music partner; in 2017 there followed a solo recording of his Bach-Variationen op. 114 for Piano on the Steinway D concert grand, produced in 3D binaural stereo.