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Teaching Languages : English, German, French, Japanese
Teaching Dates : July 25-29, 2025
Jacob Leuschner, born in Freiburg in
1974, studied in Freiburg and Lübeck.
His most important teachers were Helmut Barth, Michel Béroff, Konrad Elser and
Leonard Hokanson.
Since 1989, he has performed as a soloist and
sought-after chamber musician in many European countries, Japan, South Korea,
China and the USA, and has been invited to numerous international festivals. He
has been a regular participant in the funding project "Bundesauswahl
Konzerte Junger Künstler" (Federal Selection Concerts Young Artists)held
by Deutscher Musikrat.
The awards he has won at major piano
competitions testify to his artistic stature: Viotti (Vercelli), Beethoven
(Vienna), Schubert (Dortmund), Mozart (Salzburg), Leeds, Rina Sala Gallo
(Monza), Deutscher Musikwettbewerb, Deutscher Hochschulwettbewerb – to name
just the most important ones.
He is also the recipient of the Possehl Music
Prize, the Kai-Uwe von Hassel Prize and the Wiesbaden Mozart Prize.
Jacob
Leuschner taught at the University of Music Lübeck, and was a Visiting
Professor at the University of Music FRANZ LISZT in Weimar. From 2008 to 2014,
he held a professorship at the University of Music in Cologne, and then
followed a call to join the University of Music in Detmold. He regularly gives
masterclasses in many European countries, Japan, China and Korea.
His repertoire ranges from the Virginalists
to the present; one focus is the masters of Viennese classical music. He has
performed the complete cycles of Mozart’s, Beethoven’s and Schubert’s piano
sonatas at several occasions.
He also works as a juror at international piano
competitions and as a publisher, and has dealt intensively with historical
keyboard instruments. He is the founder and artistic director of the Brahms
Piano Competition in Detmold.
His discography includes not only numerous
chamber music pieces, such as the complete works for cello and piano by Reger
with Guido Schiefen (Oehms Classics), but also the late Beethoven sonatas and
Liszt transcriptions. In addition to two solo CDs, he released a complete
recording of Mozart's sonatas for piano and violin in 2017 with violinist Keiko
Urushihara (Nippon Acoustic Records), which was met with enthusiasm by the
Japanese trade press and awarded the "Excellence Award" by the
Japanese State Office for Culture. In 2019, his recording of Beethoven’s
Diabelli Variations was published by the label „Perfect noise“.
Today, Jacob Leuschner is one of the most
distinguished and versatile German pianists of his generation.
