Andreas Frölich Explained

Andreas Frölich (born 1963) is a German pianist and teacher at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln.

Life

After leaving school, Frölich studied piano with Vitaly Margulis at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg and with Pavel Gililov at the Musikhochschule Köln. After graduating as a concert pianist and winning prizes at major competitions, Frölich subsequently took up a busy concert schedule at home and abroad, which took him to the major stages in Europe and also to South America, South Africa, Japan and Australia, among other places. He has also been invited to perform at the Rheingau Musik Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Salzburg Easter Festival, the Mozart Festival Würzburg, the Schubertiade in Roskilde and many others.[1] [2]

As a soloist, he has performed with numerous renowned orchestras such as the, the Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, the Württembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn, the Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss, the Münchener Kammerorchester, the Beethoven Orchester Bonn, the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Limburgs Symfonie Orkest Maastricht, the Beethoven Orchester Bonn, the Armenian Philharmonic, the Salzburg Chamber Soloists, the Kammerphilharmonie Amadé, the Málaga Concerto, the Kuopio Symphonic Orchestra, as well as with the Tallinn Philharmonic Orchestra, Radio Symphonic Luxembourg, the Rheinische Philharmonie Koblenz, the Orchestre National de Bretagne, the Collegium instrumentale Halle and many others.[3]

One focus of his artistic activity is chamber music. Frölich has performed with the Ensemble Wien, among others, and is currently one of the members of the renowned Mendelsohn Trio Berlin, along with Uta Klöber, violin, and Ramon Jaffé, violoncello. He has recorded more than 30 CDs, some of them award-winning, on labels such as CPO, EMI, BMG, Oehms Classics, VMS and Divox.[4]

In the winter semester of 2006, Frölich accepted an appointment at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln/Aachen. In 2001 Frölich was also one of the co-founders and artistic directors of the AmadèO Festival in Aachen and the Orpheo concert series in Kerkrade (NL) and Herzogenrath, each of which is presented annually as part of the Festival by the "Stichting Euriade e.V.". The Stichting Euriade, founded by the philosopher Werner Janssen in 1981, elected Frölich to the executive board and entrusted him with the musical direction of the Euriade Festival. As part of the AmadéO Festival, the Prix amadéo de piano for young pianists was organised on an annual basis, which was renamed the in 2015. Together with Ilya Scheps, he founded the association MozARTe e. V. in 2015 and together with Scheps took over the leadership of this association and the competition jury.[5]

Frölich is a professor at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln/Aachen. He regularly gives international master classes, including as a guest professor at the Internationale Sommerakademie Mozarteum Salzburg, and is in demand as a juror at numerous international piano competitions. In recent years, his students have won more than 30 prizes (1st and 2nd prizes) at numerous national and international piano competitions.[6]

Recordings

External links

Notes and References

  1. https://www.talentmusicmasters.it/andreas-fr%C3%B6lich Andreas Frölich
  2. https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG27697 Andreas Frölich
  3. https://www.steinway.com/artists/andreas-frolich Andreas Frölich
  4. https://pianocompetition.com/jurymember/andreas-frolich/ Andreas Frölich
  5. https://stimulationbasale.fr/V2/professeur-andreas-frohlich/ Andreas Frölich
  6. https://www.kalaidos-fh.ch/de-CH/Kontakt/Personenverzeichnis/F/Froelich-Andreas Andreas Frölich

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