Artistic Patronage

Lars Vogt

Artistic Patron International German Piano Award

Music reflects our entire life; it raises us to the highest heights, but it can also express loss, fears, anger and suffering.

Countless people play the piano. But we only remember very few of them for a long time after their concerts and describe them as an experience. So that precisely these »very few« are found and supported, the »International German Piano Award« has been brought into being: to promote excellence intending to take as many aspects as possible for an international concert career into account. In order to be able to express the highest heights and deepest human feelings on the piano, the interpreter has to master the instrument with technical perfection and break through all barriers of emotional abandon with the courage to gain inner freedom and absolute, deep and honest expression. What a challenge and pleasure to be able to support pianists at such a level! As the Artistic Patron of this initiative, it is a pleasure for me to dedicate myself to this task, together with the initiator of the International German Piano Award, Ms Maryam Maleki.