Holger Groschopp

* in Berlin; pianist; studied at the Hochschule der Künste Berlin with Georg Sava; a regular partner of vocal and instrumental soloists (among them Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau); a specialist in the piano music of classical modernism and the avant-garde. In addition to his piano studies he studied composition with Isang Yun and song interpretation with Aribert Reimann and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. He has appeared at the Berliner Festwochen, the Osterfestspiele Salzburg, the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto and the Musikfest Berlin and took part in world premieres and first performances of works by Hans Werner Henze, Aribert Reimann, Wolfgang Rihm and Isang Yun; he was honoured at the Brahms competition in Hamburg. He has long been associated with the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra as an ensemble pianist, soloist and chamber musician. For the Capriccio label he recorded six CDs of transcriptions and paraphrases by Ferruccio Busoni; alongside these there are recordings of works by Isang Yun, John Adams and Ursula Mamlok. Three albums connect him with Cybele. Two of them form the Simon Laks series, which received the OPUS KLASSIK 2023 for editorial achievement of the year: the complete works for piano on the Steinway D concert grand (2022) and the complete works for cello and piano and for two cellos, together with Adele Bitter and Mischa Meyer (2022). With Adele Bitter he is also heard in Isang Yun and the Cello (2019) from the Edition Künstler im Gespräch.