The Hamburg pianist Alexander Krichel - live "in Ulm, around Ulm and round around Ulm" – exclusively for the Lions-Club Ulm/Neu-Ulm – Alb-Donau

ALEXANDER KRICHEL INSPIRES


As a child he wanted to become a magician, “with real magical powers!” Today he actually has them - at the piano ...

Alexander Krichel, born in 1989, founded his training in the Russian piano school. He first studied in Hamburg, and then from 2007 in Hanover with Vladimir Krainev. In 2011 he continued his studies with Dmitri Alexejew at the Royal College in London and released his debut CD “Insights” with works by Friedrich Liszt, for which he received the 2013 ECHO Klassik as Young Artist of the Year.


I AM THE FIRST MUSICIAN –

AND EVEN THE FIRST
PROFESSIONAL ARTIST IN MY FAMILY.


In 2016 he completed his studies and began to develop his career as a concert pianist - as a soloist and with major orchestras worldwide. He has performed in Berlin, Hamburg, Cologne, Bamberg and Munich, in Zurich, London, Oslo, Warsaw, Bucharest, St. Petersburg, in New York City, Cape Town, Tokyo, Kyoto, Caracas, Mexico City – and naturally, in Ulm. He also inspires at festivals and with chamber musicians, he directs the award-winning festival “Kultur Rockt” that he founded and is artistic director of the concert series “Chamber Music on the Upper Rhine”.


 

“It's about these changes 
  and sudden changes of direction, 
  the one can happen in music 
  – as in life. "


In 2019, Alexander Krichel released “An die ferne Geliebte” as the sixth album, spontaneously reaching number five in the classical music charts. He loves the works of the German Romantic period and “expressive pianissimo”. He reacted to Corona on May 9th 2020 with the world's first classic drive-in theater concert, to be heard here  in the WDR media library. For a Rachmaninov-Paganini-Rhapsody with the Hong Kong Sinfonietta and Christoph Poppen on September 26th 2020, he had to complete 14 days of hotel room quarantine in advance. He is committed to projects that teach young people classical music – and also to his work helping hospices.


A person without airs, with depth and esprit: Welcome to Ulm, Alexander Krichel!

www.alexanderkrichel.de

ALBUMS

  • 6. An die ferne Geliebte

    Love sorrow and love joy in a fascinating composition of works by Beethoven, Schumann, Wagner, Liszt and Kreisler  

  • 5. Mirrors

    Maurice Ravel: from the dancing “Le Tombeau de Couperin” to the impressonistic “Miroirs” to the seemingly demonic “Gaspard de la nuit”  

  • 4. Rachmaninov

    The passionate, poetic piano concerto No. 2 in C minor by Sergei Rachmaninov with the Dresden Philharmonic under the direction of Michael Sanderling, plus the solo “Moments musicaux” op. 16 and the self-composed “Lullaby”  

  • 3. Chopin - Hummel - Mozart

    Romanticism interpreted like a dream: Chopin's “Rondo á la Krakowiak”, “Oberon's Magic Horn” by Johann Nepomuk Hummel and the Chopin Variations on “Don Giovanni”  

  • 2. Frühlingsnacht

    Romantic songs and arrangements of songs by Schubert, Schumann and Mendelssohn: intimate and touching, gripping and dramatic  

  • 1. Insights

    Visionary musical narration and intimate moments with works by Franz Liszt: B minor ballad and Dante sonata, Petrarch sonnets and "Venezia e Napoli"