“My name is Michael Kuhn, and I studied at the conservatories of Berlin and later in Karlsruhe by Prof. Günter Reinhold. I graduated with distinction.
I have won first prizes in various competitions and received grants for “outstanding artistic achievements” from industry and commerce and the European Piano Teachers Association in Basel, Switzerland.
I was appointed to a substitute professorship at the conservatory of Karlsruhe. Now, I teach at the music school in Tübingen and in addition at the “International Academy of musical education” in Karlsruhe.
I have played a lot of recitals in Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Austria, Swisse, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Poland, Israel, Mexico and USA, both as a solist and as a chamber musician.
In addition, I gave master classes for pianists in Germany, at the “New Mexico State University” and in Los Alamos in the USA.
I’m also managing dirctor of the world-famous original MontanaraChoir and first chairman of various cultural associations.
Mostly, I was influenced by Günter Reinhold, himself a student of Alfred Cortot and Olivier Messiaen. And so, I prefer an elegant, French style of playing piano with a lot of arm weight and as less as possible tension in the wrist.
The most important achievement for me is, that I can play hundreds of concerts all over the world and that I can conduct important sacred works for orchestra and large choir, like Messa per Rossini, Requiem by Verdi, Elias and a lot more.
There are so many good pianists. Who are my favourite performers it’s a difficult question and I have no favourite.
There is so much injustice in this world, but each and every one of us can help make it a little better. Always be fair, just, and generous.
With the organisation “Plan” I support children in Africa and I fight vigorously against animal experiments in various organisations.
If I were in a deserted island 3 CDs I would bring would be:
Chopin Ballads, performed by A. Benedetti Michelangeli
Tschaikowsky’s symphonies, performed by the Gwandhausorchester Leipzig, conducted by Kurt Mazur
Liszt’s Faust-Symphonie with the Boston Sinfonie Orchestra and Leonard Bernstein.”