Career
The Schneider Book of Records once referred to Henriette Gärtner as "the youngest concert pianist in the world", after she attracted international attention at the International Musical Festival Lucerne as an eight-year-old. Meanwhile Henriette Gärtner enjoys excellent repute on the international stage. Henriette"s musical talent became apparent at an unusual early age.
She began playing the piano already as a three-year-old, and just two years later she gave her first major concert in Stuttgart.
She supplemented her artistic training with master courses taught by renowned maestros like Rudolf Buchbinder, Viktor Merzhanov, Christian Zacharias, Peter Feuchtwanger and Karl-Heinz Kämmerling. Since that time a vigorous concert activity has followed, which led Henriette Gärtner to the musical centers of Europe.
Added to that were further invitations from renowned orchestras under conductors such as Karl Münchinger, Rudolf Baumgartner, Petr Altrichter, Thomas Kalb, Richard Schumacher, Thomas Koncz, Howard Griffiths, Elyakum Shapirra, Gerd Albrecht and Edmond de Stoutz. From 2001 until 2005 Henriette Gärtner studied at the "Incontri colonel Maestro" in Imola with Leonid Margarius, pupil of Vladimir Horowitz" sister Regina.
Furthermore she was admitted to "Scuola Pianistica di perfezionamento L. Margarius" in 2003.
Repeatedly Henriette Gärtner was invited to Saint Martin in the Fields, London, and to Saint James"s Piccadilly, London, by the European Beethoven Society. Besides, she played for the Associazione Mozart Italia and the Robert-und-Clara-Schumann-Gesellschaft Leipzig. In 2009 Henriette Gärtner released her fourth Civil Defense "Imperial" with music by Beethoven and Schubert.
