Third prize for HfMT pianists

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Emil Reinert, Master's piano student in the class of Prof. Hubert Rutkowski, won 3rd prize at the 6th International Béla Bartók Piano Competition in Graz

The sixth edition of the International Béla Bartók Piano Competition took place in Graz from November 11 to 17, 2019. Almost 100 young talents from 24 nations and three continents took part. The compulsory program focused on piano works by Béla Bartók and Viennese classical music.

Biography
Emil Reinert is a German-French pianist who began playing the piano at the age of 10 with Prof. Adam Wibrowski. After passing the scientific baccalaureate with highest honors at 17, he simultaneously studied piano at the Regional Conservatory of Paris, musicology at the Sorbonne University and lied accompaniment with Prof. Françoise Tillard. In 2012, Emil Reinert was accepted at the Schola Cantorum and also studied in the class of Gabriel Tacchino, the only pupil of Francis Poulenc. Two years later, he completed his studies there and at the Regional Conservatory with the unanimous distinction of "very good" to study with Prof. Hubert Rutkowski at the Hamburg University of Music and Drama. He began his master's degree in October 2018. During this time, he took part in various competitions in which he won numerous prizes, including first prize at the 2019 Steinway Competition, first prize at the Montrond-les-Bains International Piano Competition, second prize at the Elise Meyer Competition in Hamburg, third prize at the 6th Béla Bartók Competition, the Concert Prize, the Culture Prize and the Leschetitzky Prize at the 2nd German Piano Competition for Polish Music, and the prize for the best interpretation of Dimitri Chostakovitch at the 16th Île de France Competition. These successes have led to him being invited to several festivals, such as the Paderewski Festival in America and the Philos Festival in Japan. He has also been supported by the Deutschland Stipendium and the Johannes Brahms Foundation.
His interest in modern music led him to found the Ensemble Volans together with other musicians with the aim of performing contemporary music.Communicating music is an important task for Emil Reinert. In October 2019, he was hired by the Career Center of the HfMT as an artist mediator.He has performed as a soloist with the Philharmonic Orchestra of Kielce in Poland, conducted by Allessandro Crudele, with the Symphonic Orchestra of Abruzzi in Italy, with the Hamburger Orchester Gemeinschaft in Germany and with the Wiener Neustädter Instrumentalisten in Austria.