Falko Steinbach

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Full Name	Falko Steinbach
Occupation	Composer
Date Of Birth	Sep 30, 1957(1957-09-30)
Age	67
Birthplace	Aachen
Country	Germany
Birth City	North Rhine-Westphalia
Horoscope	Virgo

Falko Steinbach Biography

Falko Steinbach is one of the most popular and richest Composer who was born on September 30, 1957 in Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Falko Steinbach (born 30 September 1957 in Aachen, Germany) is an American/German pianist, composer and pianist pedagogue. As an Steinway Artist, Steinbach is an master of the classical repertoire as well as an expert in modern music, well-known for his unending imagination, “mesmerizing sound,” and his incredibly versatile piano technique. In 1999, he joined musical faculty of the University of New Mexico and was appointed a full professor of piano in the year 2010. He was awarded US citizenship in the year 2011, and as a dual citizen the pianist continues his international career as a record artist, and collaborator in America, Europe and Asia. He is a renowned instructor of composition and piano and the author of a number of notable pedagogical publications, including a renowned volume on the piano’s methodology, “A Compendium of Piano Technique”. He is often invited to deliver master classes and recitals at international music conferences, festivals and universities across the globe and also to serve as a the judge for international and national piano competitions.

Steinach founded his own “Initiative for the Enrichment of Culture” to help and encourage composers, musicians and other artists. The initiative was established in Huckeswagen, Germany, and was a member of its director’s board for a few years following. The association was later founded by Steinach for music of the present, “Klang Koln e.V.,” in the year 1991 and was the an associate and chair as well as acting chairman from 1991 until 2000. As a member of the association, he performed and recorded with a variety of prominent singers and musicians, like Francoise Groben, Tina von Altenstadt Anne Schwanewilms, Francoise Groben and Marlene Mild. He also worked alongside fellow composers Christoph Maria Wagner, Stefan Thomas, Oliver Trotschel and Thomas Reiner. He was the artistic director for”Tage Neuer Music, “Tage Neuer Musik,” 2001 in Brauweiler, Germany, and was also the Artistic Director of the “Streams” Music Festival in 2010 and 2013, featuring several contemporary composers like Maurizio Kagel Kurt Schwaen, Barbara Rettagliati, Massimo Berzolla, Martin Christoph Redel, Alexander Litvinowski, Christopher Shultis and other artists. Since 2004, he’s been a board member for “der Abtei Brauweiler” Concert Series. In 2009 he established”the “Internationales Klavierfestival Lindlar” near Cologne. He is currently the artistic director of this event, and it has grown into an important and highly acclaimed festival of culture in the region.

Steinbach is recognized worldwide for his “inexhaustible fantasy,” his “mesmerizing sound” and his sharp understanding of the possibilities of playing piano and understanding its physical, spiritual and mental aspects. His work emphasizes the careful production of tone quality in all musical contexts, and in particular, the relationship between movements and the sounds they produce; with respect to his unique approach to piano music, he explains “sound is the gate to our emotions – you can see the sound and hear the movements performed on the piano” in these works. Steinbach has spent much of his composition, performing and teaching career exploring the effects of both listening to, and performing music on human sensory process and cognition. In relation to these insights, one finds in his works unique and thoughtful attention to aspects of sound, space, time, and physical movements both in surface details, and within the larger structure of many works, such as those found in his cycles of etudes. His largest etude cycle, “Figures” has been the subject of two doctoral dissertations. The first, “The Interdependence of Movement and Sound in all Aspects of Piano in Falko Steinbach’s “Figures”- 17 Choreographic Etudes for Piano (2006.)” was published in 2010 by Taiwanese pianist, Shu Ching Cheng, at the University of Arizona. The second, “A Structural Analysis for Performers: Falko Steinbach’s “Figures: 17 Choreographic Etudes for Piano,” was published in 2012 by American pianist, Alexander Schwarzkopf at the University of Oregon. Steinbach’s passion and dedication for both artistic and pedagogic work are reflected in his 53 piano etudes “Figures,” “Moving,” “Finger Paintings,” “Mirror Visions,” and “Etude 53,” and in his comprehensive text, “A Compendium of Piano Technique.” The methods presented in these works provide guidance for students at beginning, intermediate, and advanced skill level, and because of the breadth and consistency of his approach, his students are among the noted performers in the state of New Mexico, and the surrounding region; many of these students have achieved professional and academic positions, scholarships, grants, and prizes at piano competitions and universities. Steinbach has given master courses at universities and music festivals in Germany, Italy, The United States, Mexico, Taiwan and Malaysia and has acted as a juror for many national and international piano competitions.

Steinbach’s performance career since the 1980s has included solo recitals, as well as collaborative performances with other soloists, chamber ensembles, and orchestras in the United States, Europe, and Asia. He is regularly invited to perform at international music festivals, and in addition to giving approximately thirty concerts each year he continues to be an active recording artist of repertory extending from Bach to contemporary piano music. Steinbach has been critically acclaimed for his individual and deeply philosophical ‘metaphysical’ approach to his craft. He is a passionate promoter of new music, and frequently premieres new works, many of which are written for, and dedicated to him in lecture recitals. He has recorded over fifteen albums of Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Contemporary music with Ambitus, Edition Antes, Centaur Records and Navona Records, and has also completed recordings for the WDR and NDR radio broadcasters. He has also appeared on German, Malaysian, and US radio and television as a performer, and scholarly expert in the field. Within his extensive catalog are the first recordings of many of the works of Hans Eisler, P. Dessau, and Kurt Schwaen, as well as his own works and those of many other composers. Steinbach’s artistry is also, in his terms, driven by a proactive engagement with humanitarian programs working against discrimination. In addition to numerous benefit concert performances, proceeds from his album, “Klassik für Menschenrechte” listing works of Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin and Bartók, were donated to the Casa Alianza Children’s Aid of Guatemala, and Amnesty International. Similarly proceeds from the album, “Humanity Classics,” financed by the Landschaftsverband Rheinland and featuring piano concertos by Mozart and Schnittke, were donated to the recovery and treatment of the women victimized by the Soviet-era Bulgarian treatment facility, Malko Scharkovo.

From 1986 to 1987, Steinbach pursued advanced postgraduate studies in solo piano in the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London as well as were students of Craig Sheppard and assistant to Peter Feuchtwanger. In this period as well, he was also able to pursue study in collaboration and solo with a variety of renowned teachers and performers , including the mentioned Peter Feuchtwanger, Tatjana Nikolajewa, Boris Pergamenschikov, Members of the Amadeus Quartet, and later with Dietrich Fischer Dieskau in 1991. The time he spent in London was among the most important experiences of his musical career.

Falko Steinbach Net Worth

Falko Steinbach is one of the richest Composer from Germany. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Falko Steinbach 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

In his first study, Steinbach was most interested in performing. Only in his teens began to concentrate on composition with greater concentration. At 24 and decided to pursue composition and theory in the Musikhochschule Koln in collaboration with Prof. Manfred Reiter, and Prof. Roland Lobner. He completed his first significant composition, “Suite in Three Movements” for piano in

1982. He shortly thereafter completed his theoretical studies in order to be awarded an Staatsexamen (equivalent to an modern”Bachelor’s degree). He has developed his compositional technique using innovative methods for dodecaphony, rotating systems, sets class transformations, points of inversion of symmetry, stylistic synthesis as well as jazz-inspired styles and patterns. Steinbach thinks that “to learn composition under the guidance of an instructor is contradictory within itself. It is no longer a good idea to speak of tonality or atonality. Both are irrelevant when you view music by means of rotational systems, movements and feelings. There are no rules or fashions that I can follow.” His work spans more than fifty compositions, which include an opera called “Berlin Suite,”” the cycle of church music “Apocalypse,” numerous major cycle for choirs and other ensembles, piano groups and etude cycles that have been noted and other pieces for piano solo. A large portion pieces are commission works like the “Agnes Mass” (2002) composed to commemorate the 100th anniversary celebrations of Saint Agnes’ Church in Cologne. Church of St. Agnes in Cologne as well as “Mystic Circle” for small group (2013) An ode to Igor Strawinsky written for the John Donald Robb Composer Symposium of 2013.

In 1986, Steinbach was granted the DAAD scholarship by the German government to finance his higher studies in England. Steinbach was granted the grants of 1997 as well as 1998 of the “Stiftung Kunst und Kultur” of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia to produce the album, “Six Take,” in addition to “Lieder aus dem Exil,” which is a WDR recorded CD featuring the soprano Marlene Mild. In 1999, he received an award by The University of New Mexico to translate his German-language work on the piano’s technique, “Klaviertechnisches Kompendium,” into English and, in 2006, the same year he was awarded a second UNM grant to release his etude collection, “Figures” – 17 Choreographic Etudes for Piano.” The grant was awarded in 2008, among them a RAC Grant from UNM for the publication of the recording of “Figures” with Centaur Records. “The “Internationales Klavierfestival Lindlar”, that he created, received an award from the “Student Abroad Funding” award from The University of New Mexico in 2014. Steinbach is an active participant in GEMA. Verlag Edmund Bieler, Cologne currently publishes his work.

He currently lives with his second wife Emily and his three children Tankred Noel, Ronja Magdalena and Sebastian Miles in Albuquerque, New Mexico – U.S.A. and in Lindlar, Germany.

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