Martin Helmchen

Pianist from Germany
1982, June 21st in Berlin -

Martin Helmchen is a German pianist, born in Berlin on 21 June 1982. He began piano lessons at six at the Steglitz music school, later studied with Corinna Simon, then with Galina Iwanzowa at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin and with Arie Vardi at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover. His breakthrough came in 2001 when he won the Clara Haskil International Piano Competition, followed by first prize at the Kissinger Klavierolymp in 2003. In 2006 he received the Credit Suisse Young Artist Award, which brought his debut with the Vienna Philharmonic at the Lucerne Festival, and an ECHO Klassik as young artist of the year; he was also a BBC New Generation Artist from 2005 to 2007. He has since appeared with orchestras such as the Berlin Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony, the Chicago Symphony, the San Francisco Symphony, the NHK Symphony and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. Long associated with PENTATONE, he became an exclusive Alpha Classics artist, recording the complete Beethoven piano concertos with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin under Andrew Manze and a series of Schubert sonatas. A devoted chamber musician, he has performed with Christian Tetzlaff, Gidon Kremer, Tabea Zimmermann, Julia Fischer, Sabine Meyer, Heinrich Schiff and Juliane Banse. He is married to the cellist Marie-Elisabeth Hecker, with whom he has recorded Brahms and Schubert, and since 2010 he has taught chamber music as associate professor at the Kronberg Academy. Source: Rondo DB

Usual Name Martin Helmchen
On Wikipedia Martin_Helmchen
Relationships is the husband/wife of Marie-Elisabeth Hecker
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Schubert: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 2

2026-10-30

Alpha Classics