JOEY CALDERAZZO

PETRONEL MALAN

ALEXANDER PALEY

CLEMENS UNTERREINER

OVIDIO DE FERRARI

MIKHAIL PLETNEV

 

Guzal Hilbertz-Enikeeva was born in Tadschikistan, raised in Taschkent, Usbekistan, and is now a German citizen who resides in Cologne / Bonn.  Her first public appearance at the age of six, was in the former UDSSR and led to a future of concerts with outstanding revues. Guzal began her studies of music and piano at the state conservatory in Taschkent,  Usbekistan and finished them in Germany at the universities of Hannover and Weimar. The most important teachers for her were Prof. Nataly Zinzadze and Prof. Vladimir Krainew, both students of  Heinrich Neuhaus. She also participated in Master Classes with the highly admired pianists, Prof. Karl-Heinz Kämmerling and Prof. Arnim Torger.

Her studies at the Academy for Music and Theatre in Hannover were supported by the Usbekistan government. During her studies she performed concerts in Taschkent, Moscow, Kiev and Ulan-Bator ( Mongolia ), many of these concerts were broadcast on radio and television. She toured with the Usbekian chamber orchestra through Middle-Asia, on the trail of the legendary silk-road. Guzal has been the winner of many National competitions in Usbekistan and won awards at the International Piano Competitions in Bremen, Germany and Porto, Portugal.

After settling in Germany she received several invitations to perform at music-festivals, such as the “Internationale Klavierwochen” in Heidelberg, the “International Klavierzyklus” in Bad Kissingen, “Audi Sommerkonzerte”, Ingolstadt, the “Pianorama” in Florence , the “Piano-Plus” in Bonn and the “Richard Wagner Festival” in Cologne, which was recorded live by the “West-Deutscher- Rundfunk”. She also toured in Russia, Ukraine, Mongolia, China, France, Portugal and England, playing in the famous concert-halls of “Mozarteum” in Salzburg, “Tschaikowsky-Hall” in Moscow, “St. Merri” in Paris, “Regentenbau” in Bad Kissingen, the “Residenz” in Würzburg

In 2006 she had her first and very successful Germany tour with  the “Klassische Philharmonie Bonn”, conducted by Prof. Heribert Beissel. These performances were in the  famous concert-halls of Germany; “Meistersingerhalle” in Nürnberg, “Die Glocke” in Bremen, the “Liederhalle” in Stuttgart, the “Herkulessaal” in Munich, the “Beethovenhalle” in Bonn, the “Rudolf-Oetker-Halle” in Bielefeld, the “Konzerthaus am Gendarmenmarkt” in Berlin.

Her performace at 17th International Offenbach Festival was broadcast on television.

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