Lars Vogt
Lars Vogt studied the piano with Ruth Weiss (Aachen) and Prof Karl-Heinz Kämmerling (Hannover). He first came to public attention when at 20 he won second prize at the 1990 Leeds International Piano Competition and has since gone on to give major concerto and recital performances throughout Europe, Asia and North America. An EMI recording artist, Lars Vogt has made fifteen discs for the label. These include the Schumann, Grieg and Beethoven concertos and solo recordings of Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Schumann, Tchaikovsky and Mussorgsky. He is also a valued chamber musician. For the 2003/4 season Lars Vogt was appointed the first ever "Pianist in Residence" for the Berlin Philharmonic, he has performed with the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony, the Concertgebouw Philharmonia, the Orchestre de Paris, The Munic Philharmonics, the Mahler Chamber, and the prominent US symphonic orchestras from Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, the Stockholm Philharmonics, the NHK Symphony and Santa Cecilia in Rome. In 1998 he founded the “Spannungen” festival in Heimbach, Germany.