Matthias Kirschnereit

Born in Dorsten, Kirschnereit grew up in Namibia and later studied at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold with Renate Kretschmar-Fischer.

In 1989, he received the Förderpreis des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen für junge Künstlerinnen und Künstler [de].

Among the ensembles with which Kirschnereit performs are the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, the Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart and the Lucerne Festival Strings.

[1] In 1997, Kirschnereit, who lives in Hamburg, received a professorship at the Rostock University of Music and Theatre.

For the world premiere recording of the reconstructed piano concerto in E minor by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy together with the Robert-Schumann-Philharmonie Chemnitz conducted by Frank Beermann Kirschnereit received the ECHO Klassik in 2009.