Christian Nagel

* 1974 in Kiel; pianist and composer; at the Folkwang-Hochschule Essen he studied piano with Catherine Vickers and music theory with Wolfgang Grandjean. As pianist and répétiteur he has worked with the Bochumer Symphoniker, at the Aalto-Theater Essen, with the WDR Rundfunkorchester Köln and the SWR Symphonieorchester, among others. New music is one of his main areas: he has worked with Karlheinz Stockhausen and Philippe Manoury and played in Bernd Alois Zimmermann’s “Die Soldaten” at the Ruhrtriennale. In 2002 he was part of the ensemble of Anna Ikramova’s “Der schlafende Reiter” at the 6-Tage-Oper festival in Düsseldorf; since 2020 he has been professor of piano and applied piano playing at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg. On the album Anna Ikramova: Der schlafende Reiter DVD (2000) he takes part in the recording of the Essen performance.