Lars Vogt
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,[1] 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.
Lars Vogt
8 September 1970
5 September 2022 (aged 51)
- Classical pianist
- Conductor
- Academic teacher
- Berlin Philharmonic
- Spannungen
- Musikhochschule Hannover Royal Northern Sinfonia
- Orchestre de chambre de Paris
Awards[edit]
In 2004, Vogt was awarded both the Brahms-Preis[25] and the Echo Klassik. He was awarded the Kulturpreis der Sparkassen-Kulturstiftung Rheinland in 2006,[26] and received the Würth Prize of Jeunesses Musicales Germany in 2016.[27] 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[5] and the Pablo Casals Award posthum in 2023.[28]