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Eddy Grossenstein performed many concerts as a pianist, harpsichordist and conductor. He also made recordings, composed and arranged many music for the pop industry and for himself as a pianist and conductor. Eddy was born in Brazil in a Lutheran German family originally from the Grossenstein Village near Leipzig and he is a direct descendant of Johann Carl Gross, a Mayor of Leipzig and reputable legal author of the 19th century.

Eddy Grossenstein had many different music teachers and a degree with masters under a five years scholarship at the Chopin Conservatory of Warsaw, Poland. Eddy also consider extremely important for his education, the comments received from the renowned pianist Magda Tagliaferro after performing for her twice when he was a teenager, as well as the comments provided by the prominent concert impresario Mr. Frank Ross.

Eddy had a busy activity performing piano recitals, mostly in chamber venues, looking for proximity to the audience and cosy ambience. As a student, he performed many of the standard repertoire as a soloist of symphonic orchestras, but he preffers to perform concerts as a conductor-soloist of small string groups or reduced orchestras. He was the principal conductor from the Sinfonietta of Madrid, Spain, performed concerts for international broadcast televisions and made recordings during the recording industry era in the U.K. and in the United States. He had the honor of have worked with the Manager-Representant of tenor Plácido Domingo, Mr. J.M.Chinchilla and also with Mr. R.Stein, Manager-Representant of soprano Teresa Berganza.

One of the most famous pianist of all history, Ms. Maria João Pires, provided to Eddy a recommendation letter that he has not enough words to thank and express the immense respect he has to this so wonderful person and musician.

Eddy performed almost the entire piano literature, but his repertoire is basically the Germanic Classical Music. And by Germanic he understands the music from the Germanic Baroque to Modern music, the Italian Baroque (a big influence to the Germanic Classical Music), and the Classical Music of South America (mostly a compositional Germanic structure mixed with an extremely rich folklore).