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==Biography==
==Biography==
Vogt was born in [[Düren]] and 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 has since gone on to give major concerto and recital performances. He founded the festival 'Spannungen' in [[Heimbach]] (Eifel) in 1998.
Vogt was born in [[Düren]] and 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 has since gone on to give major concerto and recital performances. He founded the festival 'Spannungen' in [[Heimbach]] (Eifel) in 1998.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Vogt Lars |url=https://pittsburghsymphony.org/pso_home/biographies/guest-artists/vogt-lars |access-date=2022-09-06 |website=pittsburghsymphony.org}}</ref>


In May 2014, the [[Royal Northern Sinfonia]] announced the appointment of Vogt as its next music director, effective September 2015.<ref>{{cite press release | url=http://www.sagegateshead.com/news-and-blogs/press-releases/royal-northern-sinfonia-announces-lars-vogt-as-new/ | title=Royal Northern Sinfonia announces Lars Vogt as new Music Director ahead of Sage Gateshead's 10th birthday season | publisher=Royal Northern Sinfonia | date=28 May 2014 | access-date=11 December 2014 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141219060025/http://www.sagegateshead.com/news-and-blogs/press-releases/royal-northern-sinfonia-announces-lars-vogt-as-new | archive-date=19 December 2014 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | author=Imogen Tilden | title=Lars Vogt to replace Zehetmair at Royal Northern Sinfonia | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/may/29/lars-vogt-replace-music-director-thomas-zehetmair-royal-northern-sinfonia | work=The Guardian | date=29 May 2014 | access-date=11 December 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | author=Gavin Engelbrecht | title=Royal Northern Sinfonia announces Lars Vogt as new music director | url=http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/11241832.Royal_Northern_Sinfonia_announces_Lars_Vogt_as_new_music_director/ | work=The Northern Echo | date=28 May 2014 | access-date=11 December 2014}}</ref> Vogt served as music director designate for the 2014–2015 season, in his first formal orchestral post. Vogt concluded his music directorship of Royal Northern Sinfonia in 2020,<ref>{{cite press release | url=https://www.askonasholt.com/lars-vogt-appointed-music-director-of-the-orchestre-de-chambre-de-paris/ | title=Lars Vogt appointed Music Director of the Orchestre de chambre de Paris | publisher=Askonas Holt | date=9 October 2019 | access-date=16 March 2021}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite press release | url=http://www.orchestredechambredeparis.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Press-release-OCP-Lars-Vogt-music-director.pdf | title=Orchestre de chambre de Paris: Lars Vogt, new Music Director | publisher=Orchestre de Chambre de Paris | date=9 October 2019 | access-date=30 December 2020}}</ref> In December 2021, the OCP announced an extension of Vogt's contract as music director through June 2025.<ref>{{cite press release | url=https://www.orchestredechambredeparis.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/CP-OCP-LarsVogt-dec2021-1.pdf | title=Lars Vogt renouvelé à la tête de l’Orchestre de chambre de Paris | publisher=Orchestre de Chambre de Paris | date=15 December 2021 | access-date=30 December 2021}}</ref> He held the OCP post until his death.
In May 2014, the [[Royal Northern Sinfonia]] announced the appointment of Vogt as its next music director, effective September 2015.<ref>{{cite press release | url=http://www.sagegateshead.com/news-and-blogs/press-releases/royal-northern-sinfonia-announces-lars-vogt-as-new/ | title=Royal Northern Sinfonia announces Lars Vogt as new Music Director ahead of Sage Gateshead's 10th birthday season | publisher=Royal Northern Sinfonia | date=28 May 2014 | access-date=11 December 2014 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141219060025/http://www.sagegateshead.com/news-and-blogs/press-releases/royal-northern-sinfonia-announces-lars-vogt-as-new | archive-date=19 December 2014 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | author=Imogen Tilden | title=Lars Vogt to replace Zehetmair at Royal Northern Sinfonia | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/may/29/lars-vogt-replace-music-director-thomas-zehetmair-royal-northern-sinfonia | work=The Guardian | date=29 May 2014 | access-date=11 December 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | author=Gavin Engelbrecht | title=Royal Northern Sinfonia announces Lars Vogt as new music director | url=http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/11241832.Royal_Northern_Sinfonia_announces_Lars_Vogt_as_new_music_director/ | work=The Northern Echo | date=28 May 2014 | access-date=11 December 2014}}</ref> Vogt served as music director designate for the 2014–2015 season, in his first formal orchestral post. Vogt concluded his music directorship of Royal Northern Sinfonia in 2020,<ref>{{cite press release | url=https://www.askonasholt.com/lars-vogt-appointed-music-director-of-the-orchestre-de-chambre-de-paris/ | title=Lars Vogt appointed Music Director of the Orchestre de chambre de Paris | publisher=Askonas Holt | date=9 October 2019 | access-date=16 March 2021}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite press release | url=http://www.orchestredechambredeparis.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Press-release-OCP-Lars-Vogt-music-director.pdf | title=Orchestre de chambre de Paris: Lars Vogt, new Music Director | publisher=Orchestre de Chambre de Paris | date=9 October 2019 | access-date=30 December 2020}}</ref> In December 2021, the OCP announced an extension of Vogt's contract as music director through June 2025.<ref>{{cite press release | url=https://www.orchestredechambredeparis.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/CP-OCP-LarsVogt-dec2021-1.pdf | title=Lars Vogt renouvelé à la tête de l’Orchestre de chambre de Paris | publisher=Orchestre de Chambre de Paris | date=15 December 2021 | access-date=30 December 2021}}</ref> He held the OCP post until his death.

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Vogt in 2015

Lars Vogt (8 September 1970 – 5 September 2022) was a German concert pianist and conductor. Noted by The New York Times for his interpretations of Brahms,[1] Vogt performed as a soloist with major orchestras and was the the music director of the Orchestre de chambre de Paris at the time of his death. Vogt recorded commercially for such labels as EMI/Warner Classics and Ondine.

Biography

Vogt was born in Düren and 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 has since gone on to give major concerto and recital performances. He founded the festival 'Spannungen' in Heimbach (Eifel) in 1998.[2]

In May 2014, the Royal Northern Sinfonia announced the appointment of Vogt as its next music director, effective September 2015.[3][4][5] Vogt served as music director designate for the 2014–2015 season, in his first formal orchestral post. Vogt concluded his music directorship of Royal Northern Sinfonia in 2020,[6] 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.[7] In December 2021, the OCP announced an extension of Vogt's contract as music director through June 2025.[8] He held the OCP post until his death.

Vogt recorded commercially for such labels as EMI/Warner Classics, Avi Music, and Ondine.[9] In 2004, Vogt was awarded both the Brahms-Preis and the Echo Klassik. He won the "Großer Kulturpreis der rheinischen Sparkassen" in 2006.[10] He was a winner of the Würth-Musikpreis in 2016.[11]

Vogt and his wife Anna had three children. In February 2021, Vogt was diagnosed with cancer, continuing to play while receiving treatment.[12] Vogt died at age 51 on 5 September 2022. His wife and children survive him.[13][14][15]

Discography

Title Instrument Year Recorded with Label
Grieg & Schumann: Piano Concertos Piano 1992 City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Simon Rattle Warner Classics
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1 Piano 1996 City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Simon Rattle Warner Classics
Prokofiev & Shostakovich: Cello Sonatas Piano 1996 Truls Mørk Erato
Schubert: Piano Trio No. 1 & Introduction and Variations on 'Trockne Blumen' Piano Antje Weithaas, Tanja Tetzlaff, Chiara Tonelli, Silke Avenhaus Avi
Brahms & Berg: Works for Clarinet and Piano Piano 2003 Sabine Meyer Warner Classics
Franck, Ravel, Saint-Saëns: Violin Sonatas Piano 2004 Sarah Chang Warner Classics
Lars Vogt & Friends (live from Heimbach Chamber Festival) Piano 2005 Antje Weithaas, Claudio Bohórquez Warner Classics
Lars Vogt & Friends (live from Heimbach Chamber Festival) Piano 2005 Daniel Harding, Isabelle Faust, Christian Tetzlaff, Sharon Kam, Stephan Schweigart, et al. Warner Classics
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 & Triple Concerto Piano 2006 Gordan Nikolitch, Tim Hugh, London Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Haitink LSO Live
Schubert: Piano Trio No. 2 in E flat major, D929 Piano 2006 Christian Tetzlaff, Tanja Tetzlaff Avi
Brahms: Chamber Music Piano 2006 Christian Tetzlaff, Isabelle Faust Avi
Schubert: Piano Music Piano 2008 (solo) Avi
Sharon Kam - Works for Clarinet Piano 2008 Sharon Kam, Antje Weithaas, Gustav Rivinius Avi
Schumann & Elgar - Piano Quintets Piano 2008 Live from Spannungen Festival Avi
Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 20 & 23 Piano 2009 Mozarteum Orchester, Ivor Bolton Oehms
Bach - Chamber Music Piano 2009 Live from Spannungen Festival Avi
Dvorak, Schumann & Reimann: Chamber Works Piano 2010 Live from Spannungen Festival Avi
Liszt: Sonata in B Minor, Schumann: Fantasie in C Major Piano 2010 (solo) Berlin Classics
Brahms: Viola Sonatas Op. 120 Piano 2011 Rachel Roberts Avi
Tchaikovsky String Quartet No. 3 & Shostakovich Piano Trio No. 2 Piano 2011 Live from Spannungen Festival Avi
Smetana, Ravel and Watkins: Piano Trios Piano 2012 Live from Spannungen Festival Avi
Mozart: Sonatas for Piano and Violin Piano 2012 Christian Tetzlaff Ondine
Schumann: Sonatas for Violin and Piano Piano 2013 Christian Tetzlaff Ondine
Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 21 & 27 Piano 2013 Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Järvi Avi
Boulanger, Hindemith & Debussy: Chamber Works Piano 2013 Live from Spannungen Festival Avi
Dvorak & Shostakovich: Piano Trios Piano 2014 Live from Spannungen Festival Avi
Chopin Piano 2014 (solo) Avi
Brahms: Piano Trios Nos. 1-3[16] Piano 2015 Christian Tetzlaff, Tanja Tetzlaff Ondine
Bach: Goldberg Variations[17] Piano 2015 (solo) Ondine
Schubert, Britten & Shostakovich: Works for Viola and Piano Piano 2016 Rachel Roberts Avi
Mozart & Mendelssohn: Concertos for Piano Conductor 2016 Danae Dorken, Royal Northern Sinfonia ARS
For Children Piano 2016 (solo) Avi
Brahms: Violin Sonatas[18] Piano 2016 Christian Tetzlaff Ondine
Schubert Piano 2016 (solo) Ondine
Beethoven: Piano Concertos 1 & 5 Piano, Conductor 2017 Royal Northern Sinfonia Ondine
Beethoven: Triple Concerto, Piano Concerto No. 3 Piano, Conductor 2017 Christian Tetzlaff, Tanja Tetzlaff, Royal Northern Sinfonia Ondine
Beethoven: Piano Concertos 2 & 4 Piano, Conductor 2018 Royal Northern Sinfonia Ondine
Schumann: Cello Concerto & Works for Cello and Piano Piano 2018 Gabriel Schwabe, Northern Sinfonia Naxos
Dvořák: Piano Trios Nos. 3 & 4 Piano 2018 Christian Tetzlaff, Tanja Tetzlaff Ondine
Mozart: Piano Sonatas K280, K281, K310, K333 Piano 2019 (solo) Ondine
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 & Four Ballades Piano, Conductor 2019 Royal Northern Sinfonia Ondine
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 & Handel Variations Piano, Conductor 2020 Royal Northern Sinfonia Ondine
Janáček: On an Overgrown Path, In the Mists, Sonata 1.X.1905 Piano 2021 (solo) Ondine
Beethoven: Sonatas, Op. 30[19] Piano 2021 Christian Tetzlaff Ondine
Schumann & Strauss: Melodramas[20] Piano 2022 Isabelle Vogt (narrator) Ondine
Mendelssohn: Piano Concertos & Capriccio Brillant[21] Piano, Conductor 2022 Orchestre de Chambre de Paris Ondine

References

  1. ^ Tommasini, Anthony (10 April 2017). "Review: Lars Vogt Offers His Intensely Probing Take on Bach". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 6 September 2022.
  2. ^ "Vogt Lars". pittsburghsymphony.org. Retrieved 6 September 2022.
  3. ^ "Royal Northern Sinfonia announces Lars Vogt as new Music Director ahead of Sage Gateshead's 10th birthday season" (Press release). Royal Northern Sinfonia. 28 May 2014. Archived from the original on 19 December 2014. Retrieved 11 December 2014.
  4. ^ Imogen Tilden (29 May 2014). "Lars Vogt to replace Zehetmair at Royal Northern Sinfonia". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 December 2014.
  5. ^ Gavin Engelbrecht (28 May 2014). "Royal Northern Sinfonia announces Lars Vogt as new music director". The Northern Echo. Retrieved 11 December 2014.
  6. ^ "Lars Vogt appointed Music Director of the Orchestre de chambre de Paris" (Press release). Askonas Holt. 9 October 2019. Retrieved 16 March 2021.
  7. ^ "Orchestre de chambre de Paris: Lars Vogt, new Music Director" (PDF) (Press release). Orchestre de Chambre de Paris. 9 October 2019. Retrieved 30 December 2020.
  8. ^ "Lars Vogt renouvelé à la tête de l'Orchestre de chambre de Paris" (PDF) (Press release). Orchestre de Chambre de Paris. 15 December 2021. Retrieved 30 December 2021.
  9. ^ Andrew Clements (5 March 2004). "Brahms: Intermezzi Op 117; Piano Pieces Op 118 and 119: Lars Vogt". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 December 2014.
  10. ^ "Dürener Pianist Lars Vogt erhält 'Goldene Silberne Stimmgabel'". Aachener Nachricthen. 12 August 2009. Retrieved 30 December 2020.
  11. ^ "Würth-Musikpreis für Solopianist Lars Vogt". NMZ. 14 October 2016. Retrieved 30 December 2020.
  12. ^ Hartmut Welscher (14 May 2021). "The Time Remaining". VAN Magazine. Retrieved 30 December 2020.
  13. ^ Salazar, Francisco (5 September 2022). "Obituary: Pianist & Conductor Lars Vogt Dies at 51". OperaWire. Retrieved 5 September 2022.
  14. ^ Falk Häfner (5 September 2022). "Pianist und Dirigent Lars Vogt ist tot: Feinfühlig, zugewandt, herzlich". BR-Klassik. Retrieved 6 September 2022.
  15. ^ "Pianist Lars Vogt (51) overleden". NPO Radio 4. 5 September 2022. Retrieved 6 September 2022.
  16. ^ Fiona Maddocks (31 May 2015). "Brahms: The Piano Trios CD review – a tender, shadowy intensity". The Observer. Retrieved 30 December 2020.
  17. ^ Fiona Maddocks (23 August 2015). "Bach: Goldberg Variations CD review – simplicity and wit from Lars Vogt". The Observer. Retrieved 30 December 2020.
  18. ^ Fiona Maddocks (14 August 2016). "Brahms: The Violin Sonatas CD review – exhilarating freedom". The Observer. Retrieved 30 December 2020.
  19. ^ Giovetti, Olivia (13 January 2022). "Vintage Prada and Snow". VAN Magazine. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
  20. ^ "Schumann & R. Strauss: Melodramas". Presto Music. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
  21. ^ "Mendelssohn: Piano Concertos & Capriccio Brillant". Presto Music. Retrieved 8 February 2022.

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Preceded by Music Director, Royal Northern Sinfonia
2015–2020 		Succeeded by
Dinis Sousa (principal conductor)
Preceded by Music Director, Orchestre de chambre de Paris
2020–2022 		Succeeded by
(post vacant)
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