Born in Trier (Germany) Alexander Lonquich studied with Astrid Schmidt-Neuhaus, Paul Badura-Skoda, Andreji Jasinski and Ilonka Deckers and started his international career winning the First Prize at the International Piano Competition „Antonio Casagrande“ in Terni, Italy at the age of sixteen.
Lonquich performs in Japan, United States, Australia as well as at the most important European music centres and regularly appears at the prestigious Festivals, such as Salzburger Festspiele, Klavier-Festival Ruhr, Schleswig-Holstein Festival, Lucerne Festival, Cheltenham Festival, Edinburgh Festival, Feldkirch Festival, Kissinger Sommer, Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, Lockenhaus a. o. He played under the baton of Claudio Abbado, Yuri Bashmet, Hans Graf, Heinz Holliger, Ton Koopman, Emmanuel Krivine, Mark Minkowski, Kurt Sanderling, Sándor Végh and many other conductors with the most prestigious orchestras o the world.
Since a few years he appears with increasing frequency also in the double function as soloist & conductor with the Camerata Salzburg, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, the Orchestra da Camera di Mantova, Münchener Kammerorchester, the Basel Chamber Orchestra, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, to name a few. An essential part in the musical life of Alexander Lonquich is focussed on chamber music. His partners are Veronika Hagen, Heinz Holliger, Steven Isserlis, Isabelle van Keulen, Sabine Meyer, Boris Pergamenschikow, Heinrich Schiff, Christian Tetzlaff, Tanja Tetzlaff , the Auryn Quartet, Ruth Ziesak to name a few.
His recordings with Frank Peter Zimmermann and his solo CDs with oeuvres of Mozart and Schubert for EMI received outstanding reviews and were awarded with prizes, such as „Diapason d’Or“ in France, „Premio Abbiati“ in Italy and „Premio Edison“ in Holland.
A new Solo CD has been released in September 2004 dedicated to French Music (ECM RECORDS). A second is in preparation. This CD titled “Plainte Calme” featuring French composers got hymns of praises all over the world.
One of the highlights of last year were appearances at the world’s most famous piano festival
(Klavierfestival Ruhr), at the Menuhin Festival in Gstaad; he has also been “Artist in Residence” of the Beethoven Festival in Bonn. On top of that he performed in a series of 8 concerts in Rome, 14 Mozart concertos as soloist/conductor with the Orchestra da Camera di Mantova. The same project will be on tour in Europe in the season 2005/06/07.
During the following season he will present himself again as conductor/soloist with both the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, the Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, the Basel Chamber Orchestra, the Camerata Bern, the Camerata Salzburg and concentrate on tours as soloist in Japan and U.S.A.
Alexander Lonquich gives master classes at the famous Accademia Pianistica in Imola (Italy),at the I.M.S (Prussia Cove England), the „Staatliche Hochschule für Musik“ in Cologne/Germany, the Mozarteum University in Salzburg, the Zurich Music Academy, in Australia and the United States.
