Rainer Maria Klaas

Classical pianist. Rainer Maria Klaas is one of the most versatile interpreters of the 19th and 20th century piano and chamber music. Born in Recklinghausen, he received his pianistic training with Detlef Kraus, Klaus Hellwig and Yara Bernette as well as with courses by Guido Agosti, Jorge Bolet and Czeslaw Marek. In 1977 he made his concerts in Hamburg. Concerts and master classes have led him to many countries in Europe, the USA, Israel and South Korea. As a soloist with orchestras, Klaas dealt extensively with Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt, Alkan, Saint-Saëns, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Stravinsky, Gershwin and Shostakovich. He has played piano concertos for the last four years by Stefan Heucke, Martin Münch and Frank Zabel. Many of the works of his soloist and chamber music repertoire, which includes several hundred composers, are documented on CD or in recordings. Klaas teaches at the studio :: busoni in Recklinghausen and Dortmund.