ERNST UECKERMANN  -  Composer, Pianist ^WIKI
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Internationally acclaimed pianist and composer, Ernst Ueckermann was born in 1954 in Estcourt, South Africa. His formal music studies were conducted at the Johannesburg Art School, Royal College and Royal Academy of Music in London, Musikhochschulen Wuerzburg and Freiburg Germany, with Professors Kirsti Hjort, Bertold Hummel and Helmut Barth. He has participated in numerous master classes with  members of the Melos Ensemble, Brahms Trio, Moscow piano trio and some of the world’s foremost pianists.

His pianistic career gained momentum during his student years culminating into a busy international career. Concerts and recordings have been done in many capitals all over the globe as soloist, with diverse chamber music ensembles, and as accompanist. Compact disks, radio productions and Television concerts have also been produced for amongst other; the Bavarian Broadcasting Company, West German Radio and Television, Swiss Radio (Zuerich), Radio Portugal, Azores Television, Korean Television, Adv Vienna and Television Cultura in Brazil. 

Ernst Ueckermann’s compositions cover works for orchestra, chamber music, solo pieces and four song cycles, several of which have been commissioned. He recieved composition prizes in 1980 and 1982. Numerous compositions have been recorded by diverse broadcasting companies and have been performed at international festivals. His work which includes three manuals on "Creative Harmony" is published by the Braun-Peretti Verlag Bonn.

He currently lectures composition techniques at the University of Cologne and heads a piano and chamber music class at the Musikhochschule Wuerzburg.

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