Irmela Roelcke is a German pianist, chamber musician and music educator; the focal points of her work are new music and historical keyboard instruments. She studied with James Avery at the Musikhochschule Freiburg, where she held a teaching position for piano from 1992 to 1994. Invitations took her to the Klavierfestival Ruhr, to ars musica Brussels, to musica viva Munich, to the Berliner Festwochen and to the MDR-Musiksommer. She initiated the performance of numerous works for several pianos, among them “enactments” by Stefan Wolpe and “Frieze” by John McGuire. With the Pellegrini-Streichquartett she recorded Artur Schnabel’s Piano Quintet of 1916 for cpo; for Cybele she took part in the recording of piano works by Clarence Barlow.
Irmela Roelcke
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