Piano Recital Hubert Rutkowski (PL)

About the event

Hubert Rutkowski's musical interpretations are shaped by a passionate attachment to the aesthetics of the 19th-century old school; the pianistic traditions of Chopin, Theodor Leschetizky and their successors such as Karol Mikuli, Moriz Rosenthal and Raoul Koczalski form the cornerstone of his artistic profile.

An important moment in Hubert Rutkowski's career was the CD recording of the piano works of Julian Fontana and of music by Theodor Leschetizky for the Acte Préalable label (2007). Since then he has given concerts regularly in numerous European countries, in Asia, Latin America and the USA. He has performed at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the festival “Rarities of Piano Music”, the Paderewski Festival in Los Angeles and the Artur Rubinstein Festival in Łódź, among others.

Hubert Rutkowski is a graduate of the F. Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw. From 2005 to 2010 he completed postgraduate studies (concert examination) at the University of Music and Drama in Hamburg with Evgeni Koroliov. In 2007 he won the International Chopin Piano Competition in Hanover, and in 2013 he received the renowned Berenberg Culture Prize in Hamburg.

In April 2010 he was appointed one of the youngest professors at the University of Music and Drama in Hamburg, where he has headed the piano department since 2014.

Hubert Rutkowski is founder and president of the Theodor Leschetizky Music Society in Warsaw and president of the Chopin Society Hamburg-Sachsenwald, as well as artistic director of the German Piano Competition of Polish Music at the HfMT Hamburg. In 2018 he organised Hamburg's first Chopin Festival on historical and modern instruments.

* Carl Filtsch was born in Transylvania and achieved worldwide fame as a pianist at the age of 12. He was a pupil of Fryderyk Chopin from 1841 to 1843 and the only one to whom the master also gave composition lessons. Tragically he died of consumption at the age of 15.

** Adolf Gutmann was born in Heidelberg and came to Paris in 1834 to study with Chopin. He appeared in several concerts together with Chopin and Charles Alkan. Inspired by his master's style, he composed several nocturnes and a cycle of études which he dedicated to Chopin. Chopin dedicated his Scherzo op. 39 to him.

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