With his virtuosic yet unpretentious stylempianist Martin Helmchen is increasingly recognised on the international music scene. Recent debuts with major orchestras include the Berlin Philharmonic under Herbert Blomstedt, Vienna Philharmonic under Valery Gergiev, London Philharmonic with Vladimir Jurowski and City of Birmingham Symphony and Andris Nelsons. The 2010/11 season will see Martin Helmchen make further notable debuts with the Orchestre de Paris and Christoph von Dohnànyi, a debut with Sir Mark Elder in a return with the Hallé Orchestra and his North American debut at the prestigious Vancouver Recital Society. This season Martin Helmchen maintains his close collaboration with Yakov Kreizburg both with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo and the Netherlands Philharmonic, he performs with Gürzenich Orchestra Köln with Markus Stenz, the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra under Kirill Karabits and the Milan G. Verdi Orchestra under Claus Peter Flor. On tour he is soloist with the NHK Symphony Tokyo and Sir Roger Norrington, the NDR Hannover orchestra under the baton of Andrés Orozco-Estrada and with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields and Sir Neville Marriner on an extensive tour of Germany. Chamber music concerts include performances with Heinrich Schiff at Vienna’s Konzerthaus and a tour with Marie-Elizabeth Hecker, joining forces with Veronika Eberle for the final concert at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw. He will also perform a duo recital tour with Julia Fischer in Spain and Germany. Through his exclusive contract with PentaTone, which began in 2007, Martin Helmchen has released two concerto discs with the Netherlands Chamber Philharmonic and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg. His first solo recording of Schubert works won an ECHO Award in 2009.

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 "Helmchen gave a delightfully unaffected, affectionate, and note-perfect performance"
Classical Source, 27 April 2009

"a pianist...with all the virtues - vision as well as virtuosity and vim - stipulated by his calling, not to mention a warm presence."
Paul Driver, Sunday Times, 3 May 2009

Project: Shostakovich Piano Concerto No.2, Live concert recording with LPO/Jurowski for CD to be released in 2010

 "This is a marvellous disc, one of the most enjoyable I have heard in a long time... a great line-up of soloists, who seem to know one another very well, or to have clicked miraculously, with results that, in the case of the 'Trout' Quintet, are more completely satisfactory than any account I have ever heard of this work."

BBC Music Magazine, July 2009

Project: Pentatone recording of Schubert's Trout Quintet, a collaboration between BBT Award Winners Martin Helmchen, Marie-Elisabeth Hecker and Antoine Tamestit, with BBT Honorary Committee member Christian Tetzlaff violin, plus Alois Posch double bass

• Study costs
• Survival money for a sabbatical
• New photos
• Live CD recording with the London Philharmonic Orchestra

Artist Website

www.martin-helmchen.com

General Management

Erdmuthe Pirlich at Konzertdirektion Hans Ulrich Schmid
telephone: + 49 511 36607 69
erdmuthe.pirlich@kdschmid.de
www.kdschmid.de