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Franziska Pietsch (* 1969 in Halle/Saale/Germany) is a german violinist of classical music.

Biography
Franziska Pietsch was raised in the atmosphere of a musicians’ household in East Berlin. As an eleven-year old girl, she had her debut at the Komische Oper in Berlin and performed as a soloist with renowned orchestras of the former GDR. She began her studies as a junior student at the University for Music Hanns Eisler in East Berlin Hochschule für Musik „Hanns Eisler“ Berlin with Werner Scholz. In Eastern Germany, she was seen as an extraordinary talent and enjoyed special support from the state up until her Father’s escape to West Germany in 1984. Two difficult years with reprisals by the regime followed. She was able to emigrate to West Germany with her mother and younger sister in 1986 when she was 16.

Her studies continued with Ulf Hoelscher, Karlsruhe, Germany, Jens Ellermann, Hannover, Germany and Dorothy DeLay at the Juilliard School New York, USA. She got important and fruitful impulses from master classes with well-known personalities such as Wanda Wiłkomirska, Ruggiero Ricci, Herman Krebbers and Zakhar Bron.

The internationally successful concert activities lead her to different countries in Europe, to America and Asia. She performed with conductors like Antoni Wit, Arpad Joo, Moshe Atzmon, Julia Jones, Toshiyuki Kamioka, George Hanson und Cristian Măcelaru.

She was the first concert master of the Sinfonieorchester Wuppertal (Germany) in the years 1998 to 2002, and Deuxième soliste at the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg (Luxembourg) from 2006 to 2010. Regular invitations as concert master lead her to Düsseldorf, Opera (Germany), Frankfurt Opera (Germany), WDR Funkhausorchester Köln (Germany) and Solistes Europèens Luxembourg (Luxembourg). Not only as a concert master, she was invited to perform at numerous music festivals.

However, she is particularly interested in chamber music. In 2000 the Trio Testore was founded together with the pianist Hyun Jung Kim-Schweiker and the cellist Hans-Christian Schweiker. Besides vigorous concert activity, the Trio created the chamber music festival “Mai-Klassik” to commemorate the Trio’s ten-year anniversary. She was a part of the Trio until 2015.

Together with the violist Sophia Reuter and the cellist Johannes Krebs, the Trio Lirico was founded in 2014. On occasion of the 100th year of max Regers death a debut CD with String Trios and a Piano Quartet was published in 2017.

Despite her engagement in chamber music she still continues to perform as a soloist. Her different CD publication were honoured with several nominations and awards.

Owing to the CD record of the Prokofiev violin concertos with Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin (DSO Berlin) and Cristian Măcelaru she won the quarter of the year prize of the German record review (Vierteljahrespreis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik, PdSK), Germany, 2018.

For her CD Fantasque, on January 2021 she was awarded with the ICMA Prize, Category: Chamber music.

Franziska Pietsch plays a violin made by Carlo Antonio Testore, Milan 1751 Franziska Pietsch is married and has one son.

Awards

 * 3. Prize of the International Kocian Violin competition in Ústí nad Orlicí, Czechia, 1981.
 * 1. Prize of the Bach-Competition for students and adolescents (Wettbewerb für Schüler und Jugendliche) in Leipzig, Germany 1982.
 * Parke-Davis Advancement Award (Förderpreis), Germany, 1987.
 * Winner of the Maria Canals International Music Competition in Barcelona, Spain, 1989.
 * 2. Prize of the International Violin Competition Rudolfo Lipizer Prize in Gorizia, Italy, 1989.
 * Prize of the Brahms Society (Gesellschaft) Baden-Baden, Germany, 1989.
 * Supersonic, Pizzicato, Luxembourg 2017
 * Vierteljahrespreis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik (PdSK), Germany, 2018.
 * Supersonic, Pizzicato, Luxembourg 2020
 * International Classical Music Award (ICMA), category: Chamber music 2021

Lyrics
Her passion does not extend simply to music. Her poems were published for the first time, together with pictures of the artist Nasrah Nefer (Seelenlandschaften) in 2015'.

Discography

 * Ludwig van Beethoven (Kreutzer Sonate, Sonate für Klavier und Violine No. 9, A-Dur op. 47) Parke Davis Förderpreis 1987. J. Pasquier, Piano, F. Pietsch, Violine, u. a. L. Honda-Rosenberg, Violine, I. Schibilak, Piano. Teldec 66.28353, 1987, 2 LP
 * Johannes Brahms (Klaviertrio No. 2, op. 87), Dmitri Schostakowitsch (Klaviertrio Nr. 2, op. 67), Trio Testore: Franziska Pietsch, Violine, H. C. Schweiker, Violoncello, H. J. Kim-Schweiker, Piano. audite 40.003, 2011, CD
 * Johannes Brahms, The complete Piano Trios, Trio Testore: Franziska Pietsch, Violine, H. C. Schweiker, Violoncello, H. J. Kim-Schweiker, Piano. audite 91.688, 2013, 2 CD
 * Ludwig van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johannes Brahms, Duo Pietsch Eisinger: Franziska Pietsch, Violine, Detlev Eisinger, Piano. Musicom 020422, 2014, CD
 * Sergei Rachmaninow (Trio éliaque Nr. 1), Pyotr Tchaikowsky (Piano Trio op. 50), Trio Testore: Franziska Pietsch, Violine, H. C. Schweiker, Violoncello, H. J. Kim-Schweiker, Piano. audite 92.691, 2014, CD
 * Edvard Grieg, The Violin Sonatas (no. 2 op 13, no. 1 op. 8, no. 3 op. 45), Franziska Pietsch, Violine, Detlev Eisinger, Piano. audite 97.707, 2015, CD
 * Sergei Prokofiev: Works for Violin and Piano, Violin Sonatas op. 80 and 94b, Cinq Mélodies, op. 35b, Franziska Pietsch, Violine, Detlev Eisinger, Piano. audite 97722, 2016, CD
 * Karol Szymanowski, Mythes op. 30, Romance op. 23, César Franck, Violin Sonate FWV 8, Franziska Pietsch, Violine, Detlev Eisinger, Piano. audite 97.726, 2017, CD
 * Max Reger, String Trios (no.2 op. 141b, no. 1 op. 77b) and piano quartet (no. 2 op. 133) Trio Lirico: Franziska Pietsch, violin, Sophia Reuter, viola, Johannes Krebs, violoncello and Detlev Eisinger, Piano. audite 97.714, 2017, CD
 * Sergei Prokofiev, violin concertos (no. 1 op. 19, no 2 op. 63) Franziska Pietsch, violin, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin (DSO), Cristian Măcelaru, conductor, audite 97733, 2017, CD
 * Béla Bartok, Sergei Prokofiev, Eugène Ysaye, works for solo violin, (Sz 117, op. 115, op. 27/2, op. 27/3) Franziska Pietsch, violin. audite 97758, 2018, CD
 * Richard Strauss (Op. 18), Dmitri Shostakovich (Op 134), sonatas for violin and piano, Franziska Pietsch, violin, Josu de Solaun, piano. audite 97.759, 2019, CD
 * Mieczyslaw Weinberg (Op. 48), Krzysztof Penderecki, Alfred Schnittke, string trios, Trio Lirico: Franziska Pietsch, violin, Sophia Reuter, viola, Johannes Krebs, violoncello. audite 97.753, 2019, CD
 * Gabriel Fauré (Op. 13), Claude Debussy (L.140), Maurice Ravel (M.77), Francis Poulenc (FP. 119), Title: Fantasque, sonatas for violin and piano, Franziska Pietsch, Violine, Josu de Solaun, Piano. audite 97751, 2020, CD

Weblinks

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 * Porträt Franziska Pietsch bei der Konzertdirektion Dietrich
 * Künstlerinformationen bei audite Musikproduktion Detmold
 * Homepage Franziska Pietsch