Peter Roesel, son of a conductor and a singer, was born in Dresden and started to learn the piano at the age of six. He studied at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow first with Dmitri Bashkirov and later with Lev Oborin. During his years spent in Moscow he won prizes at several major competitions, including the International Schumann Competition in 1963, the 1966 Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow and the International Piano Competition in Montreal in 1968.

 

He has performed not only in all the main musical centers of Europe but also in North and South America, Australia, Middle and Far East. His appearances in international festivals such as Berlin, Edinburgh, the London Proms, Perth, Salzburg, Hollywood Bowl and Hong Kong have been met with enthusiastic receptions from both public and critics alike.

He has played with such orchestras as the New York Philharmonic and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Detroit, Minnesota, Toronto and Montreal Symphony Orchestras, the BBC Orchestras, the Berlin Philharmonic and of course, the Dresden Staatskapelle. His conductors have included such well-known names as Herbert Blomstedt, Charles Dutoit, Bernard Haitink, Gunther Herbig, Dmitri Kitajenko, Kurt Sanderling, Juri Temirkanov and Klaus Tennstedt.

 

 

Since 1970 Peter Roesel has worked very closely with Kurt Masur and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and has played as their soloist in over 200 concerts during international tours. It was Kurt Masur who invited him to play Rachmaninov`s 3. Piano Concerto at the 150. Jubilee Celebrations of the New York Philharmonic.

In addition to his many concert appearances, Peter Roesel has made numerous recordings for labels such as EMI, Capriccio, Ars Vivendi and Berlin Classics to name but a few.

The works range from the piano concertos of Beethoven (with Flor), Weber (with Blomstedt), Schumann (with Masur) and Rachmaninov (with Kurt Sanderling) to the solo piano works of Brahms and to chamber music. They document the broad, artistic range of one of the most highly acclaimed pianists of his generation.

 

Peter Rösel has appeared as guest in over 40 countries on all five continents. Over the last years he was a soloist with the London Philharmonia, the New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, the Salzburg Mozarteum, the Lisbon Gulbenkian Orchestra, the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, the KBS Symphony Orchestra Seoul, Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig and the German Symphony Orchestra, to name but a few. The Sun's review of the piano concerto No. 2 by Prokofiev with the Baltimore Symphony came out with the headline: 'Roesel at the keyboard, electricity in the hall'.

 

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On September 9th, 2001, Peter Rösel played, for the last time, under the baton of Maestro Kurt Sanderling who said farewell to the concert podium a few months later. In the memorial concert on the occasion of the 100th birthday of Kurt Sanderling in September 2012 Peter Rösel had the privilege to perform the Mozart piano concerto in E-flat major KV 482 with the Konzerthausorchester under Ivan Fischer.

In 2015 Peter Rösel was invited again by the Kioi Sinfonietta Tokyo, the Dresdner Musik Festspiele and followed a reinvitation to the US. In May 2016 he performed with the NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo. For his longlasting and overwhelming concerts, Peter Rösel was awarded the “Kunstpreis der Landeshauptstadt Dresden 2009”. Peter Rösel is a full member of the Saxonian Academy of Arts.

 

In 2016, Peter Rösel was awarded the Mozart Prize of the Saxonian Mozart Society for his outstanding and brilliant performances and recordings of Mozart’s piano works.

 

Program:
Joseph Haydn - Sonate in E-flat major Hob. XVI, 52
Allegro moderato
Adagio
Presto

Ludwig van Beethoven - Sonate in C minor, Op. 111
Maestoso – Allegro con brio ed appassionato
Arietta. Adagio molto, semplice e cantabile

- Intermission -

 

Franz Schubert - Sonate in B major, Op. posth. D 960
Molto moderato
Andante sostenuto
Scherzo. Allegro vivace con delicatezza
Allegro ma non troppo