Education
He studied with Paul Buck, Hugo Steurer and Wilhelm Kempff.
He studied with Paul Buck, Hugo Steurer and Wilhelm Kempff.
In 1981 he was appointed professor at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München - the youngest in the history of the institute - where he still teaches. As a soloist he has appeared with many famous conductors and orchestras of the world. Performance of cycles of complete piano works feature strongly in his concert repertoire, including Schubert"s and Grieg"s solo piano works and the sonatas by Beethoven and Mozart"s sonatas, Bach"s Well-Tempered Clavier, and, especially, the complete works of Johannes Brahms.
He has recorded the challenging Max Reger Piano Concerto Operation
114 with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra and conductor Horst Stein. In 2009 he received the Brahmspreis from the Brahms Society of Schleswig-Holstein.
Among his students is Valentina Babor.