Oliver Drechsel (b. 1973) is one of the most versatile musicians of his generation. Alongside his concerts and teaching work he is also involved with CD productions as a music publisher and composer. He has been nominated \u2018Best of NRW\u2019 (North Rhine-Westphalia) and in concert devotes himself intensively to chamber music, performing regularly as a member of the Klaviertrio K\u00f6ln-Weimar, Liaison extraordinaire (harmonium and piano) and as a duo with Berthold Gro\u00dfe.
\nOliver Drechsel has already made a number of exceptional CD recordings. The consist to a large extent of world premi\u00e8re recordings, featuring a repertoire that extends as far as the music of J\u00fcrg Baur (1918\u20132010). It was with a complete recording of Baur\u2019s piano music in 1998 that Drechsel made his CD d\u00e9but and won the F\u00f6rderpreis des Rheinischen Kulturpreises. He focuses particularly on recording piano music from the 18th and 19th centuries, for example by Friedrich Kiel, Johann Christian Heinrich Rinck, Johann Wilhelm Wilms, Christian Gottlob Neefe and Ferdinand Hiller.
\nAs a composer Oliver Drechsel won first prize in the Siegburg International Composition Competition in 1996 and 2007; in 2013 he won the Sonderpreis des Vereins der Humperdinck-Freunde there for his \u2018H\u00e4nsel und Gretel\u2019 Fantasy for two cellos. In 2018, he wrote Dreaming of E. at the instigation of the pianist Susanne Kessel for the international composition project \u2018250 piano pieces for Beethoven\u2019.
\nOliver Drechsel received musical training up to matriculation standard from his mother, the concert pianist Ruth Drechsel-P\u00fcster. After that he studied the piano at the Cologne University of Music with Roswitha Gediga-Glombitza and, leading to his concert examination, in Pavel Gililov advanced course, complemented by masterclasses with Peter Feuchtwanger, Karl-Heinz K\u00e4mmerling and the Alban Berg Quartet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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