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Kolja Lessing was born on 15 October, 1961 in Karlsruhe, West Germany, is a German violinist, pianist and composer. Discover Kolja Lessing's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 62 years old?

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Occupation Violinist Pianist Composer Academic teacher
Age 62 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 15 October, 1961
Birthday 15 October
Birthplace Karlsruhe, West Germany
Nationality Germany

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1961

Kolja Lessing (born 15 October 1961) is a German violinist, pianist, composer and academic teacher.

His focus as a soloist and chamber musician has been the neglected repertoire by composers who were ostracised under the Nazi regime.

His recordings include four volumes of works by students of Franz Schreker in his master classes in Vienna and Berlin.

1978

From 1978, he attended the violin master class of Hansheinz Schneeberger in Basel.

1979

There, he also studied piano with Peter Efler from 1979.

1982

He passed his concert examinations in 1982 and 1983.

He also received formative impulses through his collaboration with Berthold Goldschmidt, Ignace Strasfogel and Zoltán Székely.

1989

As a professor of violin, he taught at the Hochschule für Musik Würzburg from 1989 to 1993, at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig from 1993, and followed a call to the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart in 2000.

1998

From 1998 to 2015, he was a regular guest lecturer at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity.

Lessing has performed worldwide as a violinist and pianist, also giving musicological lectures and master classes at European and North American universities.

Lessing has dedicated to wide-ranging repertoire, with a focus on works by composers who were ostracised under the Nazi regime, including Franz Schreker and his circle of students.

He revived stylistically different compositions for solo violin by Haim Alexander, Tzvi Avni, Abel Ehrlich, Jacqueline Fontyn, David Paul Graham, Ursula Mamlok, Krzysztof Meyer, Klaus Hinrich Stahmer, Hans Vogt.

Berthold Goldschmidt composed a work for him that he premiered.

As a violinist and a pianist, he premiered compositions including the piano concerto Rivages solitaires by Jacqueline Fontyn, Rudolf Hindemith's Suite, Ignace Strasfogel's A Child's Day, the violin concertos by Haim Alexander, Sidney Corbett's Yael, works by Abel Ehrlich and Stefan Hippe, Zoltán Székely's Allegro, A une Madone by Dimitri Terzakis, and Le Violon de la Mort by Grete von Zieritz.

Lessing has recorded extensively both with violin and piano, including numerous first and complete recordings, also with a focus on neglected composers.

He made a series of four CDs of music by composers who studied with Schreker, both as violinist and as pianist.

Compositions by Lessing are held by the German National Library, including:

Lessing wrote cadenzas to Mozart's violin concertos K. 218 and K. 219, and to all violin concertos by Ernst von Gemmingen.

2000

Lessing has taught violin at the Hochschule für Musik Würzburg and the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig, and has been professor at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart from 2000.

He has been awarded numerous honours, especially for his dedication to the music of neglected composers.

Lessing was born in Karlsruhe.

He received his basic music education from his mother.