Carmen Geutjes

Carmen Geutjes (born February 19, 2003) is a German pianist. She has performed in China, Spain, Lithuania and the Netherlands, in addition to her native Germany.[1]

Carmen Geutjes at the concert in 2018

Early life and education

Geutjes got her first piano lessons at the age of five.[2] She lives with her parents in Duisburg-South and is a student at Reinhard and Max Mannesmann High School. Since the age of ten, she has been studying piano at the Robert Schumann University of Music and Media in Duesseldorf[3] in the class of Professor Paolo Giacometti.[4]

Career

Geutjes has won national and international piano competitions, such as the first prize at the Steinway Piano Competition in Hamburg 2013,[5] one year later the first prize in the International Piano Competition Maria Herrero in Spain.[6] With her epoch-spanning program,[7] in particular with the Carmen Variations of Horowitz, she became the winner of the 10th Bitburg Piano Competition 2018.[4]

Repertoire (selection)

With her technical precision and her musical charisma Geutjes presents a demanding repertoire. She plays pieces by composers of all musical epochs, preferably extremely difficult works which only a few pianists have attempted to perform, such as Prokofiev's Toccata the "Carmen Variations" by Horowitz, The First Piano Concerto by Tchaikovsky and Petrushka by Stravinsky.[4][8][9]

Select appearances

Geutjes has been performing in concert halls since she was 6 years old including Mercatorhalle Duisburg, Laeiszhalle Hamburg, Robert Schumann Hall Düsseldorf, Kaunas State Philharmonic, Auditorium Medina Elvira Granada Spain, City Hall Chongqing China, Forum am See Lindau, Essen Philharmonic, Town Hall Recklinghausen, Stadthalle Mülheim, Bürgerhaus Rees, Harenberg City Center Dortmund and Wasserburg Ratingen.[10][11][12]

Awards

• 2010: Audience Award International Hohenlimburg Piano Competition[13]

• 2011: 1st Prize Jugend musiziert Piano Competition[14][15]

• 2013: 1st Prize Steinway Piano Competition[5]

• 2014: 1st Prize El Concourso Internacional de Piano María Herrero Spain[6]

• 2015: 1st Prize Jugend Musiziert Piano Competition Duo[16]

•2016: "Virtuoso 2016" – Munich Piano Podium[17]

•2017: 1st Prize Jugend musiziert Piano Competition[2]

•2017: Audience Award International Piano Competition for the Rotary Youth Music Prize[18]

•2018: 1st Prize and Special Prize Bitburg Piano Competition[7]

• Carmen Geutjes on Instagram

• Channel of Carmen Geutjes on YouTube

References
  1. "Carmen Geutjes – eine junge Ausnahmepianistin – Duisburg Live". duisburglive.de (in German). Retrieved 5 February 2019.
  2. Cleur, Monique de (26 January 2018). "Carmen geht in die 9. Klasse – und studiert im 9. Semester". waz.de (in German). Retrieved 5 February 2019.
  3. Bechtel, Dennis (18 January 2019). "Ein 15-jähriges Ausnahme-Talent aus Duisburg auf der Bühne". waz.de (in German). Retrieved 5 February 2019.
  4. "Carmen gewinnt in Bitburg". Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf (in German). Archived from the original on 28 January 2019. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
  5. "Oscar und Vera Ritter-Stiftung". ritter-stiftung.de. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
  6. master. "Premiados". International Piano Competition María Herrero (in Spanish). Retrieved 5 February 2019.
  7. "Bitburger Klavierwettbewerb". klavierwettbewerb (in German). Retrieved 5 February 2019.
  8. Carmen Geutjes (2 January 2019), Petruschka (I. Stravinsky), retrieved 5 February 2019
  9. Carmen Geutjes, Toccata op. 11 (S. Prokofjew), retrieved 5 February 2019
  10. Online, FOCUS. "Rees: Erstklassige Konzerte im Reeser Bürgerhaus". FOCUS Online (in German). Retrieved 5 February 2019.
  11. Wimmers, Hans (25 July 2016). "13-jährige Pianistin lieferte einen grandiosen Auftritt". derwesten.de. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
  12. "Rotary Jugend-Musikpreis 2019". Internationaler Konzertverein Bodensee e.V. (in German). Retrieved 5 February 2019.
  13. "Internationaler Hohenlimburger Musikwettbewerb Offizielle Seite – Home". hohenlimburgcompetition.instantencore.com. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
  14. "Klavier, Altersgruppe IA Sonntag, 23. Januar". doczz.com.br. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
  15. Carmen Geutjes, The Clocks (L. Talma), retrieved 5 February 2019
  16. Dymke, Roland (22 February 2015). "Talente zeigten sich auf der Bühne". derwesten.de. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
  17. "Preisträger 2016". klavierpodium-muenchen.de. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
  18. Voith, Christel. "Jugendliches Feuer am Klavier". Schwäbische (in German). Retrieved 5 February 2019.
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