Michael Korstick

Korstick received his first piano lessons at the age of 9 and was first prize winner of the " Jugend musiziert " competition in Cologne at the age of 11. After graduating from high school he entered the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Cologne as a student of Jürgen Tröster, and in 1974 he became a student of Hans Leygraf in Hanover . In the same year he took master classes from the Russian pianist Tatiana Nikolayeva and subsequently worked with her on several occasions. He made his formal concert début in Cologne in 1975, performing Beethoven 's sonatas op.106 and op.111.

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