CHOPIN AND SHOSTAKOVICH
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Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
Piano Concerto N 1 op. 11 in E minor
I. Allegro maestoso
II. Romance - Larghetto
III. Rondo - Vivace
Soloist: Malte Henrik Gohr (class of Prof. Hubert Rutkowski)
Orchestral part: N.N.
Dimitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Piano Concerto N 1 op. 35 in C minor
I. Allegretto
II. Lento
III. Moderato
IV. Allegro con brio
Soloist: Norina Hirschi (class of Prof. Anna Vinnitskaya)
Orchestral part: N.N.
About Malte Henrik Gohr
Malte Henrik Gohr was born in Hamburg in 2002. At the age of four, he moved to Zurich with his parents, where he began taking piano lessons at the age of five. He won his first music competition at the age of seven. This was followed by numerous first prizes at Swiss competitions such as the Swiss Youth Music Competition and the Zurich Music Competition. He has lived in Hamburg again since 2014, where his musical talent has been nurtured as a Claussen Simon Foundation scholarship holder through piano lessons and participation in preparatory training at the Hamburg State Youth Music School. His teachers included Olga and Andrej Hoteev as well as Stephan Widmer. Master classes with Christopher Park, Dinara Klinton and Mikhail Voskresensky complemented his musical education. Malte also regularly participated successfully in national and international piano competitions in Germany, such as the "Chinese-German Young Piano Competition" and "Jugend Musiziert". In 2024, Malte Gohr won the "De Bruycker-Stiftung - Bürgerstiftung der Stadt Schneverdingen" sponsorship prize. The young pianist played his first solo piano recital at the age of 13. In the following years, he repeatedly appeared as a soloist in major concert performances such as the "Carnival of the Animals" by Camille Saint-Saëns (2017), the Schumann Piano Concerto (2018), the first Chopin Piano Concerto (2022), the 20. Mozart Piano Concerto (2022) and the first performance of the Schumann Piano Concerto in a Hamburg main church (2023), in Hamburg's most important concert halls such as the Laeiszhalle, the Spiegelsaal of the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Schloss Reinbek, the Elbphilharmonie, the Hauptkirche St. Petri and at various musical events of the Chopin Society Hamburg-Sachsenwald. From 2020-2022 Malte Gohr played regularly in concert livestreams. Since October, he has been studying piano in Prof. Hubert Rutkowski's class at the University of Music and Drama in Hamburg.
About Norina Hirschi
Born in Switzerland in August 2002, Norina Hirschi received her first piano lessons at the age of seven from Lilian Gisclon at the Zurich Oberland Music School. After her debut as a soloist with orchestra at the age of 11, she received musical coaching from the renowned Swiss pianist Oliver Schnyder from 2014. After completing her Matura with distinction in 2021, she studied piano at the Zurich University of the Arts in the class of Prof. Hans-Jürg Strub, also with distinction. Since fall 2025, she has been continuing her studies in the master's program with Prof. Anna Vinnitskaya at the University of Music and Drama (HfMT) in Hamburg. In various master classes, she has received inspiration from pianists such as Dmitri Alexeev, Jacques Ammon, Sheila Arnold, Bernd Goetzke, Claudio Martinez-Mehner, Janne Mertanen and Gerhard Vielhaber. Norina Hirschi is also a multiple first prize winner with distinction of the Swiss Youth Music Competition, both in piano solo and in chamber music, and a prize winner of the Duttweiler-Hug University Competition, among others. Norina Hirschi has performed in many concert halls and played at renowned festivals and in concert series such as Davos Festival, Herbst in der Helferei, Klavierissimo, Kultur im Schaafstall, Kunst Gesellschaft Greifensee, Musikwoche Braunwald, Lenzburgiade, Lucerne Festival and Starnberger Musiktage. Norina Hirschi has been a scholarship holder of Live Music Now Switzerland since 2023. Norina Hirschi has also been taking classical singing lessons for several years and is training in opera and song repertoire. She also has a special interest in playing on various fortepianos and historical performance practice. Together with Thaïs Louvert, violin, and Leonardo Preitano, cello, she founded the Leonis Trio in 2024. After a year of study at the Stauffer Academy in Cremona (Italy) in the class of the Quartetto di Cremona, they are now continuing their training in the Master Specialized Performance course with Prof. Patrick Jüdt in Bern. In March 2025, they won 2nd prize at the Kiwanis Music Prize in Zurich.
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