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Lars Vogt
Vogt in 2018
Born	(1970-09-08)8 September 1970 Düren, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany
Died	5 September 2022(2022-09-05) (aged 51) Erlangen, Bavaria, Germany
Education	Musikhochschule Hannover
Occupations	Classical pianist Conductor Academic teacher
Organizations	Berlin Philharmonic Spannungen Musikhochschule Hannover Royal Northern Sinfonia Orchestre de chambre de Paris
Awards	Leeds International Piano Competition Brahms-Preis Opus Klassik

Lars Vogt (8 September 1970 – 5 September 2022) was a German classical pianist, conductor and academic teacher. Noted by The New York Times for his interpretations of Brahms, Vogt performed as a soloist with major orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic. He was the music director of the Orchestre de chambre de Paris at the time of his death and also served as the music director of the Royal Northern Sinfonia. He ran a festival of chamber music, Spannungen, from 1998, and succeeded his teacher Karl-Heinz Kämmerling as professor of piano at the Musikhochschule Hannover.

Life and career

Vogt was born in Düren on 8 September 1970 and began taking piano lessons at the age of six. He studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover with Karl-Heinz Kämmerling. He rose to prominence after winning second prize at the 1990 Leeds International Piano Competition and went on to give major concerto and recital performances. His first major recordings were with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra conducted by Simon Rattle, first in 1992 Schumann's Piano Concerto and Grieg's Piano Concerto. On the record cover, pianist and conductor appeared in informal clothes, which was new at the time. They went on to record Beethoven's Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 in 1995. Vogt first played with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Vienna Philharmonic, the London Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Boston Symphony Orchestra. He first appeared with the New York Philharmonic and Lorin Maazel in the 2003/04 season. He had a close relationship with the Berlin Philharmonic who made him their first pianist in residence, again with Rattle. Vogt recorded commercially for such labels as EMI/Warner Classics, Avi Music, and Ondine.

He was a dedicated chamber musician, focused on the repertoire of music from the classical period and the romantic era. He also collaborated with composers such as Volker David Kirchner, Thomas Larcher, Kryštof Mařatka and Erkki-Sven Tüür. He founded the festival Spannungen for chamber music in Heimbach (Eifel) in the hydro-electric power plant Kraftwerk Heimbach in 1998. Many of the concerts with friends were recorded live. Reviewer Jan Brachmann from the FAZ noted that Dvořák's Dumky Trio was played by violinist Christian Tetzlaff, cellist Tanja Tetzlaff and Vogt, as if the players took time for sinking together into moods ("für das gemeinsame Versinken in Stimmungen"). Vogt gave his last concert there, playing on 26 June 2022 with Christian Tetzlaff, Barbara Buntrock and Tanja Tetzlaff the Piano Quartet No. 3 by Johannes Brahms.

Vogt founded the initiative Rhapsody in School [de], a network of classical musicians who play in school lessons to provide children a personal close meeting with musicians and their music.

After Kämmerling's death in 2012, he succeeded him as professor of piano at the Musikhochschule Hannover.

Conductor

In May 2014, the Royal Northern Sinfonia announced the appointment of Vogt as its next music director, his first post as a conductor, effective September 2015. Vogt served as music director until 2020, and had the title of Principal Artistic Partner with the orchestra. In October 2019, the Orchestre de chambre de Paris (OCP) announced the appointment of Vogt as its new music director, effective with the 2020–2021 season, with an initial contract of 3 years. In December 2021, the OCP announced an extension of Vogt's contract through June 2025. He held the OCP post until his death.

Private life

Vogt was first married to the Russian composer Tatjana Komarova. He lived with his second wife, violinist Anna Reszniak, and one child in Nuremberg, Bavaria. In February 2021, Vogt was diagnosed with cancer of the throat and liver, continuing to play while receiving treatment, and recording between rounds of chemotherapy.

Vogt died in a clinic in Erlangen in the presence of his family on 5 September 2022, three days before his 52nd birthday.

Legacy

In memoriam Lars Vogt

• 25 June 2023 Premiere: Jörg Widmann's ..und wenn wir uns mitten im Leben meinen.., Torso for 2 violins and piano (Antje Weithaas, violin – Christian Tetzlaff, violin – Kiveli Dörken [de], piano), Kraftwerk Heimbach, Germany.

Awards

In 2004, Vogt was awarded both the Brahms-Preis and the Echo Klassik. He was awarded the Kulturpreis der Sparkassen-Kulturstiftung Rheinland [de] in 2006, and received the Würth Prize of Jeunesses Musicales Germany in 2016. That year, a recording of the Piano Trios by Brahms with Christian Tetzlaff and Tanja Tetzlaff was nominated for a Grammy Award in the category Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance. Vogt was awarded an Opus Klassik in 2021 and the Pablo Casals Award posthum in 2023.

Discography

Gramophone has regarded several of Vogt's recordings as benchmarks, as solo pianist, chamber musician and soloist and conductor with orchestra. Many recordings were made live at the Spannungen festival by label Avi (of CAvi), marked by the festival's name in the label column.

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32. Meyer, Sabine; Vogt, Lars; Brahms, Johannes; Berg, Alban; Spannungen: Musik im Kraftwerk Heimbach (2003), Works for clarinet and piano, : Warner Classics, OCLC 1155639681
33. Chang, Sarah; Vogt, Lars (2004), Sonatas for violin & piano (in German), Köln: EMI-Electrola, OCLC 1183667121
34. Beethoven, Ludwig van; Haitink, Bernard; Nikolić, Gordan; Hugh, Tim; Vogt, Lars; London Symphony Orchestra (2006), Symphony no. 7 ; Triple concerto (in no linguistic content), London: LSO Live, OCLC 811549760
35. Schubert, Franz; Tetzlaff, Christian; Tetzlaff, Tanja; Vogt, Lars (2006), Piano trio no. 2 = Klaviertrio (in no linguistic content), Germany: CAvi-music, OCLC 1031711603
36. Schubert, Franz; Vogt, Lars (2008), Klaviersonate Nr. 21 B-Dur D 960 = Piano sonata no. 21 in B flat major D 960 (in German), : Deutschlandradio , OCLC 1184329327
37. Hindemith, Paul; Kam, Sharon; Rivinius, Paul; Weithaas, Antje; Rivinius, Gustav; Vogt, Lars; Schneider, Diemut (2008), ... pour clarinette (in German), : Deutschlandradio , OCLC 1184314194
38. Vogt, Lars; Tetzlaff, Christian; Szulc, Radoslaw; Masurenko, Tatjana; Rivinius, Gustav; Weithaas, Antje; Bohórquez, Claudio (2008), Piano quintets (in German), Cologne: Deutschlandradio , OCLC 1184421156
39. Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus; Bolton, Ivor; Vogt, Lars; Mozarteumorchester Salzburg (2009), Piano concertos nos. 20 & 23 (in German), : Oehms-Classics-Musikprod, OCLC 1184286915
40. Bach, Johann Sebastian; Roberts, Rachel; Zipperling, Rainer; Viersen, Quirine; Gerštejn, Kirill; Firkins, Angela; Cantoreggi, Muriel; Tetzlaff, Tanja; Tetzlaff, Christian; Vogt, Lars (2009), Chamber music (in German), Cologne: Avi-Service for music, OCLC 1184358344
41. Dvořák, Antonín; Schumann, Robert; Reimann, Aribert; Krauledat, Verena; Lieberkecht, Andrea; Widmann, Jörg; Tetzlaff, Christian; Donderer, Florian; Keulen, Isabelle van; Roberts, Rachel (2010), Dvorák, Schumann, Schumann/Reimann, Reimann, Köln: Avi-Service for music, OCLC 1001283470
42. Liszt, Franz; Vogt, Lars; Schumann, Robert; Berlin Classics 0300064BC (2010), Sonata in B minor (in no linguistic content), : Berlin Classics, OCLC 1131659104{{citation}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
43. Brahms, Johannes; Roberts, Rachel; Vogt, Lars (2011), Viola sonatas op. 120 nos. 1 & 2 (in German), Köln, Köln: Imhoff Deutschlandfunk, OCLC 1184368264
44. Čajkovskij, Pëtr Ilʹič; Tetzlaff, Christian; Weithaas, Antje; Masurenko, Tatjana; Rivinius, Gustav; Vogt, Lars; Tetzlaff, Tanja (2011), String quartet for two violins, viola and cello in E flat minor no. 3 op. 30 (1876) (in German), Köln, Köln: Imhoff Deutschlandfunk, OCLC 1184366828
45. Smetana, Bedřich; Ravel, Maurice; Watkins, Huw; Weithaas, Antje; Hecker, Marie-Elisabeth; Donderer, Florian; Tetzlaff, Tanja; Vogt, Lars; Manz, Sebastian (2012), Piano trios (in German), Köln, Köln: Imhoff Deutschlandfunk, OCLC 1184490600
46. Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus; Vogt, Lars; Tetzlaff, Christian (2012), Sonatas for piano and violin (in no linguistic content), , : Ondine ; , OCLC 847544794
47. Schumann, Robert; Tetzlaff, Christian; Vogt, Lars (2013), Violin sonatas (in no linguistic content), Helsinki, : Ondine ; , OCLC 887450971
48. Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus; Vogt, Lars; Järvi, Paavo; Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester. (2013), Piano concertos Nos. 21 & 27 (in German), Köln: Imhoff, OCLC 862986073
49. Li, Wanzhen; Tetzlaff, Tanja; Süssmann, Gunilla; Ibragimova, Alina; Vogt, Lars; Rivinius, Gustav; Hitaj, Anna Rita; Tetzlaff, Christian; Jacobsen, Volker; LaFollette, Bartholomew (2013), Two pieces for piano trio (in no linguistic content), Cologne: Avi-music, OCLC 866591991
50. Dvořák, Antonín; Vogt, Lars; Tetzlaff, Christian; Tetzlaff, Tanja; Margulis, Alissa; Kang, Byol; Masurenko, Tatjana; Rivinius, Gustav; Pilsan, Aaron; Hecker, Marie-Elisabeth (2014), Trio for piano, violin and cello in E minor Dumky ; op. 90 ; (1890) (in German), Köln: Imhoff, OCLC 1184705205
51. Chopin, Frédéric; Vogt, Lars (2014), Chopin (in undetermined language), Avi-Service for Music, OCLC 904577543
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63. Schumann, Robert; Rimmer, Nicholas; Schwabe, Gabriel; Vogt, Lars (2018), Complete works for cello (in undetermined language), Naxos Rights US, OCLC 1039093115
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External links

• Official website (in German and English)
• Lars Vogt discography at Discogs
• Lars Vogt at IMDb
• Lars Vogt (management) Askonas Holt
• "Facing the music": Lars Vogt (interview) The Guardian, 13 July 2015

• 1970 births
• 2022 deaths
• 21st-century German male classical pianists
• 21st-century German classical pianists
• 21st-century German male musicians
• Deaths from esophageal cancer in Germany
• German classical pianists
• Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover alumni
• German male classical pianists
• People from Düren
• Prize-winners of the Leeds International Pianoforte Competition