Friedrich Höricke (born 1963) is a German pianist and composer.
Life
Born in Cologne, Höricke played his first piano recital in Cologne at the age of eleven. At the age of thirteen he was already accepted as the youngest student in the master class of Günter Ludwig at the Hochschule für Musik Köln. At the same time he attended the Cologne Apostelgymnasium [de]. At the age of 18 he won first prize at the Tomassoni Competition of the Cologne Academy of Music, as well as a prize at the Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition. Further training followed at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where he was taught by Jorge Bolet, Gary Graffman, Mieczysław Horszowski and Seymour Lipkin. First prize at the Philadelphia Young Artists Competition followed, as well as concert engagements in America, Asia, Western, Central and Eastern Europe. He subsequently released CDs, increasingly with his own compositions for piano, or for piano and orchestra.
In 1985, Höricke married the sexologist Shere Hite in New York City, where they lived together in a flat on 5th Avenue. Later Höricke and Hite moved to Germany, where they took a flat in Cologne. In 1999 the couple divorced. Höricke is currently married to Astrid von Platen-Höricke and has lived in Senzke [de] in Brandenburg since 2004. From June 1, 2010 until November 2012 he was managing director of Ribbeck Castle [de].
Style
As a composer and pianist, Höricke feels obliged to the tradition of the great composing piano virtuosos. He tries to take up their lines of tradition and integrates his own piano works as well as his own transcriptions of foreign works into his concert programmes. Thus his concert suite from the Stone Flower, Sergei Prokofiev's last ballet, can sometimes be heard. In 2004, his piano concerto was premiered at the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic.
Among other things, he is dedicated to the rediscovery of Ignaz Friedman.
Recordings
- Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor – and others pieces by Otto Nicolai. Together with the Kartäuserkantorei Köln [de] and the Kölner Rundfunkorchester, conductor Michail Jurowski. Delta Music, Frechen 1998. (Capriccio 10592)
- Love & Passion – Leidenschaftliche Klavierwerke mit Gedanken von Shere Hite. Kompositionen unter anderem von Liszt, Rachmaninoff, Gershwin, and Debussy. EastWest Records, Hamburg 1998. (Red Moon 3984-25 187-2)
- Friedrich Höricke spielt Beethoven – Sonata No. 28 A major and Sonata No. 30 E major and Variations and Fugue op. 35. Bella Musica, Bühl 1995. (Antes Edition BMCD 31.9038)
- Serge Rachmaninoff – Sonata Nr. 2, op. 36. Dabringhaus und Grimm, Detmold 1994. (MDG 611 0547-2)
References
- "Shere Hite Wed To Fred Horicke". The New York Times. October 20, 1985.
- Smilgis, Martha (October 12, 1987). "Sexes: St.Joe to Fifth Avenue". Time.
- Streitfeld, David (November 10, 1987). "Shere Hite and the Trouble With Numbers". The Washington Post.
- McKee, Victoria (April 7, 1996). "Shere Hite, Now a German Citizen, Finds Appreciation and Celebrity". The New York Times.
- Weigelt, Nada (November 2, 2007). "Orgasmus auch für Frauen: Shere Hite wird 65" [Orgasm also for women: Shere Hite turns 65] (in German). n-tv. dpa.
- www.havelland.de, press release May 28, 2010, retrieved August 19, 2021
- Rachner, Patrik (November 22, 2012). "Schloss Ribbeck GmbH: Höricke als Geschäftsführer abberufen". Märkische Onlinezeitung. Archived from the original on July 15, 2015. Retrieved August 19, 2021.
External links
- Literature by and about Friedrich Höricke in the German National Library catalogue
- Informationen zu Friedrich Höricke, unter anderem Biographie, Interview, Diskographie und Presse.
- Friedrich Höricke discography at Discogs
