Open Piano Class
Open Piano Class - by Cristina Marton-Argerich
Artistic director - Cristina Marton-Argerich
Assistant - Antonia Miller
Open Piano Class
Open Piano Class s a award-winning project founded in 2021 by international concert pianist and piano pedagogue Cristina Marton-Argerich together with co-initiator Antonia Miller, dedicated to the support of young pianists around the globe through mentoring, teaching, performing opportunities and more.
Our project: We organize throughout the year all kind of free musical activities based on the idea of an open space for musical interchange and an open invitation for musicians around the world to participate in our projects alongside our piano students. From the beginning of Open Piano Class in 2021, we organized countless concerts, open classes, masterclass lessons and meetings (live and online) and we welcomed over 65 international pianists and musicians from over 25 countries from Europe, USA, Asia, South America, Syria and Bali.
Our history: Established in 2021 during the pandemic, Open Piano Class started as a virtual platform with regular monthly activities and moved on afterwards to a succesful free platform of a constantly growing community of pianists that receive a free masterclass lesson (1-2 external participant per meeting) followed by longterm, valuable mentorship from Cristina Marton-Argerich and numerous performance opportunities that we organize in cooperation with different venues. We offer both live and online activities in order to provide continuos support also to pianists that cannot afford to travel.
–awarded with the prestigious cultural prize “Förderpreis für interkulturellen Dialog” 2023 of Pill Mayer-Stiftung
-nominated for the “Deutscher Engagement- Preis” 2023
If you want to participate in one of our next Open Piano Class projects, don´t hesitate to contact us: openpianoclass@gmail.com
We are always open for new participants.
About Cristina Marton-Argerich
Cristina Marton-Argerich
„Cristina Marton is a magnificent pianist“
Martha Argerich
Born in Romania, Cristina Marton-Argerich is an international pianist, chamber musician and piano pedagogue. During the past seasons Cristina Marton-Argerich performed at renowned music centers worldwide such as the Berliner Philharmonie, Warsaw National Philharmonic Hall, Auditorio Nacional de Madrid, Opernhaus Zürich, Herkulessaal München, Taipei National Hall, Teatro Colón de Buenos Aires, Mozarteum Salzburg, Atheneum Bucharest, Hong Kong City Hall, BAM Theater New York, Playhouse Theater Edinburgh, Frankfurt Alte Oper.
Cristina Marton has appeared as soloist with orchestras including Orchestre della Svizzera-Italiana, Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, Orchester der Oper Zürich, Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Argentina, Würtembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn, Orquesta Sinfonica de Galicia, Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg, Polish Chamber Orchestra, Hong Kong Sinfonietta, Museumsorchester Frankfurt conducted by distinguished conductors such as Sandor Vegh, James Judd, Dennis Russel Davies, Jörg Faerber, Christoph Poppen, Alexandre Rabinovich.
She performs since many years in piano duo with Martha Argerich in South America, Asia and Europe. The piano duo Martha Argerich & Cristina Marton recorded live performances at the Progetto Martha Argerich in Lugano (2009 and 2011) for EMI Classics and Warner Classics (2013).
Cristina Marton studied in Berlin with Prof. Georg Sava. She also received lessons from Christian Zacharias, Leon Fleischer, Martha Argerich, Dmitri Baskirov, Stephen Kovacevich, Fou Ts’ong, Andras Schiff, Radu Lupu and Alfred Brendel. She has won numerous important prizes at international competitions such as the Arthur Schnabel Competition in Berlin 1994 , Geza Anda Competition in Zürich 1994, Clara Schumann Competition in Düsseldorf 1997, Mozart Competition in Salzburg 1999 and the First Martha Argerich International Piano Competition in Buenos Aires 1999, the First Prize in the Murray Dranoff Two Piano Competition in Miami, USA and the First Prize in the Chamber Music Competition in Caltanisseta 1999 with Aglaia Bätzner, her piano duo partner..
Very active as a pedagogue, Cristina Marton teaches at the Jugendmusikschule Singen and at the Leopold Mozart Center of the University of Augsburg. She is jury member at international competitions and gives masterclasses worldwide.
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