Austrian pianist Markus Schirmer

Markus Schirmer (born 10 June 1963) is an Austrian pianist.

Schirmer is a professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Graz, where he teaches concert piano. He was awarded the Music Manual Award at the international Music Convention EUROMUSIC and the Karl-Böhm-Interpretationspreis:, an award for Austrian artists.

Discography

• Pictures & Reflections (Maurice Ravel: Miroirs, Modest Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition) Tacet 2005, T 132
• Ludwig van Beethoven: Early Piano Sonatas, Op. 13 Pathétique; Op. 2, No. 2 and Op. 2, No. 3; Tacet 2003, T 128
• W. A. Mozart: The Piano Quartets, Tacet 2002
• Franz Schubert: Piano sonatas D 625 F minor, D 845 A minor, Lotus Records
• Joseph Haydn: Piano Sonatas Vol. 1, Lotus Records
• Markus Schirmer and Wolfram Berger – Engel im Kopf
• Scurdia – Risgar Koshnaw: My songs from Kurdistan
• Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonatas: Nos. 13, 14 (Moonlight), 19, 20. Piano Sonatinas: in G, in F. Variations on a Swiss Song, Tacet 2011, T194
• W. A. Mozart: The Mozart Sessions: Concerto No. 12, K. 414, Concerto No. 13, K. 415, Church Sonata, K. 336; Paladino 2012

References

External links

• Official website - Official Website
• O.Univ.Prof. Markus Schirmer University of Music and Performing Arts Graz
• Official website Scurdia Markus Schirmer & Friends
• "'Rattenfänger' am Klavier mit Mozart als Köder" by Peter Vujica, Der Standard 19 April 2006
• "Markus Schirmer zu Gast im Café Graz" by Andrea Harrich, City of Graz, 23 December 2013
• "Markus Schirmer: Grenzenlose Freiheit" by Wilhelm Sinkovicz:, Die Presse, 13 January 2004
• Josef Krainer Award 2014
• Profile at styriarte
• Literature by and about Markus Schirmer in the German National Library catalogue