As a country with a glorious musical history, Germany has always attracted many music students to study, and the Berlin University of the Arts in the German capital is the first choice for many international students, which is one of the world's top art universities and the largest art higher education institution in Europe, and its conservatory has been ranked among the top in the world music conservatory ranking for many years.
More than three hundred years since its founding, and covering more than 70 courses in all faculties of the university, covering the entire field of arts and related sciences, the school's conservatory has provided students with the highest level of music education in Berlin for the past 200 years, as well as the opportunity to specialize and the possibility of communicating with various music.
The University of the Arts Berlin has bachelor's degrees, master's degrees, master students, highest performer diploma and certificate of further study, and also provides students with six types of scholarships, such as Hans Beikler Scholarship, max planck research scholarship, postgraduate scholarship, hannns seidel overseas student scholarship, rainbow scholarship, academic service scholarship, etc. Everyone can apply according to their own situation, and the following we are going to introduce the piano professor of the university - Professor Marcus Groh.
Marcus Groh lived in Berlin from 1989 and studied with Professor Hans Legroff until he passed the concert exam at the Berlin University of the Arts. In 1995, he won first prize at the prestigious Queen Elizabeth Competition in Brussels, and his piano performance was described by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung as "the symbiosis of rage and poetry". Marcus Groh, when he debuted at herkulessaal, had already been compared with "the temperament of argerich and the aesthetic rigor of svyatoslaw richter".
After Marcus Groh performed the first Liszt Piano Concerto in 2007, the New York Times called it a "dynamic, substantive interpretation, both courageous and sensitive"; in 2009, Marcus Groh performed the Brahms Piano Concerto in B major with the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra, which the New York Times called "a complete performer particularly suited to this vast work." ”
Marcus Groh's first Liszt sacd won several awards, including Phonograph magazine's coveted "Editor's Choice" and the second sacd, created by Brahms, was awarded "Star of the Month" by the professional magazine Fonoforum. His latest publication is the world premiere of the danny elfman piano quartet, released by Sony Classical in 2019 with the participation of members of the Berliner Philharmonic Orchestra.
He has performed with the London Symphony Orchestra, the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, the Budapest Festival Symphony Orchestra, and has performed with conductors such as Ivan Fischer, Nim Yelvy, Hannu Lintu, fabio luisi, Kent Nagano and Jonathan Nott.
Markus groh has given concerts at many prestigious festivals such as the Schleswig-Holstein Festival, the Ludwigsburg Castle Festival, the Schwetzinger Festival, the Schubertiad Schwarzenberg Festival, and has performed in Amsterdam, Antwerp, Athens, Berlin, Brussels, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hanover, Leipzig, London, Mexico City, Munich, New York, Paris, Seattle, Stuttgart, Tokyo, Toronto, Osaka, Washington, D.C Many music centers, such as Vienna and Zurich, have held piano concerts many times.
Since 2010, Marcus Groh has been a professor at the Hannover Academy of Music, Drama and Media, where his students have won first prizes and best prizes in international competitions in Brussels, Etlingen, Hong Kong, Leverkusen, Prague, San Marino, Sendai, Tel Aviv, Vienna, and many of the students' recordings have been distributed by international record labels such as naxos (dongkyu kim) and sony classical (alexander krichel).
Beginning in the summer semester of 2014, Marcus Groh succeeded Professor Klaus Helvinger as Professor of Piano at the Berlin University of the Arts, and from 2017 he and his colleague Professor Constantine Heydrich served as Artistic Director of the UDK Festival "Gradually Strengthening" in Berlin.