Competition success for HfMT pianists

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Juan Elvira-Márquez, concert exam student from Prof. Aleksandr Madzar's piano class, won second prize at the Aachen Piano Competition.
He impressed the jury with his interpretation of Alban Berg's demanding Piano Sonata No. 1, masterfully exposing its complex structures without lacking emotional intensity and thus leaving the most lasting artistic impression of the evening.

Vita
Juan Elvira Márquez was born in Granada (Spain) in 1998. She began studying piano with Andrei Reznik at the age of 6 and studied with him until the age of 17. From 2015 to 2019, he completed the piano diploma at the Badajoz Conservatory with Alexander Kandelaki; he received the highest qualification in the "Final Concert" and the "Special End of Studies Award". After completing his Master of Piano at the Hamburg University of Music and Drama (HfMT) with Prof. Aleksandr Madzar and graduating with top marks, he continued his postgraduate studies there.
The multi-award-winning pianist Juan Elvira Márquez currently lives in Berlin, where he teaches classical piano at the renowned Schostakovich Music School. In the 2023/24 season, he will teach as a lecturer at the HfMT Hamburg. Since 2022, his work as founder, artist in residence and artistic director of the Festival of Young Performers of Classical Music of Armilla, Granada, stands out. In June 2024, he is invited as a member of the newly founded Hamburg Trio (Danae Papamatthaiou-Matschke and Systke Pas) for a concert tour to Norway, playing at festivals such as the Horten Chamber Music Festival. In August 2024, he was invited to the Young Artists Festival in Bayreuth to premiere works by young composers together with Carmen Callejas.