JOEY CALDERAZZO

PETRONEL MALAN

ALEXANDER PALEY

CLEMENS UNTERREINER

OVIDIO DE FERRARI

MIKHAIL PLETNEV

 

In Germany she was regarded as a “child prodigy” in the eighties – the 1983 Schneider Book of Records called her the world’s youngest concert pianist. Henriette Gärtner earned widespread acclaim for her performance at the 1983 International Music Festival in Lucerne, where she debuted with Festival Strings Lucerne under Rudolf Baumgartner. That same year she performed with the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra under Karl Münchinger at the Music Festival in Colmar.

Henriette Gärtner is in great demand as a performer in many European music centers, including London’s St. Martin in the Fields, Vienna, Milan and Venice. Her career has also led to appearances on concert stages in South Africa, South America and the USA. Many noted orchestras and conductors are pleased to showcase her performing skills, including Karl Münchinger, Rudolf Baumgartner, Petr Altrichter, Thomas Kalb, Richard Schumacher, Thomas Koncz, Howard Griffiths, Elyakum Shapirra, Alya Joffe, Gerd Albrecht and Edouard d’Stoutz, to name just a few.

In addition, she has been featured in radio and television productions, including the 2008 “Music and Literature from the State” (a program about the arts in Baden-Württemberg on SWR 2 Classic Radio), the 2000 “Sunday Rhythms with Anneliese Rothenberger,” “Rendezvous Television Tower,” “Child Prodigies,” “Young Interpreters“ and “Anneliese Rothenberger Introduces.” Besides personal appearances, excellent recordings of Henriette Gärtner’s playing are available on CDs and DVDs.

 

Historical Composers & Artists

"After my coffee and cigar we went to one of the recording rooms where they had a Blüthner piano Well, this Blüthner had the most beautiful singing tone I had ever found. I became quite enthusiastic and decided to play my beloved Barcarolle of Chopin. The piano inspired me. I don’t think I ever played better in my life.“

Arthur Rubinstein 

„My Many Years“ (page 281)

 

„In das Exil nach Amerika begleiteten mich nur zwei Wesen von Bedeutung: meine Frau Natalja und mein kostbarer Blüthner.“

“There are only two important things which I took with me on my way to America. My wife Natalia and my precious Blüthner.”

Sergei Rachmaninoff

 

 “Almost in the middle of the room, the black Blüthner grand stood, free of music, book or photographs. Debussy was proud of his grand piano, and before I played he showed me a new device invented by Blüthner: an extra string set on top of the others. Although not touched by the hammers, it caught the overtones, thus increasing the vibrations and enriching the sonority. This was a piano he had rented during a stay in Bournemouth, and liked so well that he had bought it and had it shipped to Paris.” “He played a number of passages and the tone he extracted from the Blüthner was the loveliest, the most elusive and ethereal I have ever heard”. 

letter from Maurice Dumesnil, friend

Claude Debussy

Debussy's Blüthner at the Musée Labenche