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Piano Master Class with Konstanze Eickhorst – for students and emerging pianists

Four intensive days with pianist, chamber musician, and piano professor Konstanze Eickhorst at the Landesmusikakademie NRW. A maximum of ten active participants will receive at least two lessons based on their prepared pieces. On Sunday, October 4, 2026, the master class begins with a piano soirée by Konstanze Eickhorst. This will be followed by a get-together where participants can get to know one another. All participants will be accommodated at the Landesmusikakademie NRW; meals (breakfast, lunch, coffee and cake, dinner) are included in the price.

The Landesmusikakademie NRW has 7 grand pianos and 24 upright pianos, ensuring ample practice facilities. Evening gatherings in the fireplace room or the castle cellar provide opportunities for participants to interact and network.

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Rediscovered recordings with the founder of the Linos Ensemble – Klaus Becker

It was a heartfelt wish of oboist Klaus Becker to record a series of works for oboe and piano together with Konstanze Eickhorst for Bayerischer Rundfunk in 2001. These recordings were recently rediscovered in the BR archives and are now available for streaming. The Linos Ensemble is delighted to commemorate its founder, who passed away in January 2024, in this way.

Impressions of the European Piano Competition Bremen 2024

Impressions from the GÉZA ANDA PIANO NIGHT!

New Release:
HENRI BERTINI (1798-1878)
Nonetto op. 107 in D
Grand Trio op. 43 in A
Linos Ensemble
cpo 555 363-2
Release: Autumn 2021

Henri Bertini was a sought-after piano teacher, successful pianist and admired composer, whose Grand Trio for piano, violin and cello in A major op.43 and Nonet in D major op.107 for flute, oboe, bassoon, horn, trumpet, viola, cello, double bass and piano both received their first recording in February 2020 by the Linos Ensemble.

Impressions from the  6th Masterclass in Brescia, Italy at the Talent Music Summer Courses & Festival 2021!

Johann Sebastian Bach
– Konstanze Eickhorst presents her new solo album

Konstanze Eickhorst has a very personal relationship with Johann Sebastian Bach. As a versatile soloist and chamber musician, esteemed professor at the Lübeck Musikhochschule and artistic director of the European Piano Competition at Bremen, she has devoted much time and attention to the works of Bach, the most famous of all the cantors at St Thomas’s Leipzig, and has done so ever since her earliest childhood.

“Johann Sebastian Bach is the alpha and omega of music, an intellectual and emotional challenge to both the player and the listener. Many paths lead to him and to a love of his music. More than any other composer, he can sustain the widest possible range of approaches to interpretation,” says Konstanze Eickhorst, who, all her life, has been so fascinated by his works that while studying them she used to lose track of time and place.

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750)

Italian Concerto in F major, BWV 971 (from Clavierübung II, 1735)
Partita No. 1 in B-flat major, BWV 825 (from Clavierübung I, 1726)
Partita No. 5 in G major, BWV 829 (from Clavierübung I, 1730)
Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D minor, BWV 903 (c. 1717–1723)
GENUIN GEN 20682, Release March 6th, 2020
Distribution: GB: Select Music • USA: Naxos of America · CH: MusiKontakt, A: Gramola, Winter & Co

»Everything is marked by highly clear and yet pliable articulation which breathes life into the music.« Classical Music Sentinel, 3/2020

Centenary
Association for Private Musical Performance

For more than 20 years we have as Linos Ensemble been dealing with the materials from the »Association for Private Musical Performances« and have recorded an extensive edition, whose individual components are now available as a box – an excellent gift for the 100th anniversary of the Association, founded 1918 by Arnold Schönberg and his companions!
Capriccio 8CD-Set C7265

ECHO Klassik 2017

» … Once you’ve made its acquaintance I can imagine it becoming something of a personal and private pleasure; an almost secret delight in a work which, alas, seems destined to remain a concert hall rarity. With a superlative performance and excellent recording set in a perfect acoustic, this is an unexpected and rather delicious discovery which will keep its freshness and beckon with vibrant cheer each time your eyes sweep across those well-stocked CD shelves.« MusicWeb International, January 2017

Konstanze Eickhorst plays Schubert

One single Moment Musical lasting just a few minutes can seem like an eternity of suffering or happiness, while a sonata movement with “heavenly lengths” can fly by in next to no time. In the Lübeck pianist’s new GENUIN CD we experience both: in Konstanse Eickhorst’s interpretation the Wanderer Fantasy, six Moments Musicaux and the late C minor Sonata become existential journeys up mountains and down into valleys.