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The Mozart Piano Quartet
The Mozart Piano Quartet, formerly known as Ensemble Tiramisu, was founded in 1997. Made up of international soloists from Germany and Australia, the group devotes itself to the experience of music as a rhetorical language through the intimacy of chamber music. Mark Gothoni, violin, studied at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, with Ana Chumachenko in Munich, Shmuel Ashkenasi in Chicago and Sandor Vegh in Salzburg. He won several competitions (e.g. Brahms Violin Competition Hamburg) and has been appearing regularly with leading orchestras and conductors in his country and throughout Europe. Originally founder and primarius of the Gothoni Quartet, he is now primarius of the Orpheus Quartet. He has been concertmaster of the Munich Chamber Orchestra and the Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss. Between 2002-03 he served as guest professor for violin and chamber music at the McGill University in Montreal. Violist Hartmut Rohde is presently Professor of Viola at Berlin´s renowned University of Arts. He is a founding member of the Kandinsky-Streichtrio as well as the Mozart Piano Quartet. In addition, he is guest professor at the Royal Academy, London. Mr. Rohde started violin- and viola lessons at the age of nine in the German city of Celle. He went on to study with Hatto Beyerle of the Alban Berg Quartet in Vienna and Hanover where he became his assistant at the University of Music and Theater. Mr. Rohde won the First Prize of the German Music Competition, the international Academy Mozarteum Salzburg and the Best Interpretation of Contemporary Music at the International Viola Competition Naumburg, New York. Cellist Peter Hörr, born in 1968 in Arnsberg-Westfalia, began to play the cello at the age of five. In 1985 he began his studies with Heinrich Schiff in Basel and received his Soloists Diploma in 1990. Mr. Hörr has appeared as soloist with the numerous European symphony orchestras. Peter Hörr is the initiator and artistic director of the Romantic Chamber Music Festival Leipzig/Halle and a founding member of the Mozart Piano Quartet. He currently holds the position of cello professor at the Hochschule für Musik in Bern (Switzerland). Paul Rivinius, piano, a graduate of the Musikhochschule Muenchen, is a prize winner of several international competitions, among them the Munich ARD competition. As duo partner with his brother, the cellist Gustav Rivinius, he has appeared in television recordings and on tours through, e.g. Japan and North America. As a soloist, he has played under a number of well-known conductors, such as Claudio Abbado. Since 1986 he has been a member of the Clemente Trio with whom he won the chamber music competition of Caltanissetta and toured world-wide. In March of 2004 he joined the Mozart Piano Quartet. Since 2002 Paul Rivinius has also been working as coach in the field of chamber music at theHochschule der Kuenste in Berlin. |
