Annegret Kuttner piano
“Annegret Kuttner’s playing is characterised by
considerable professionalism and perfection, by her
contagious electrifying joy in performing music and by
the great stylistic sureness of her interpretation.”
Sächsische Zeitung
“Kuttner’s light-fingered playing was impressive for its
airy clarity.”
Irish Times
Pianist Annegret Kuttner impresses the audience with
the naturalness of her interpretation and the lightness
and clarity of her playing.
After successfully participating in the Robert Schumann
Piano Competition in Zwickau, Annegret has performed
already at the age of 16 as a soloist in concerts in
Germany and other European countries, including with
the European Union Youth Orchestra.
She completed her studies at the Dresden Academy
of Music with Professor Peter Rösel, and received further
musical impetus from masterclasses with Karl-Heinz
Kämmerling, Pavel Gililov and Amadeus Webersinke.
Annegret augmented her musical training with post-
graduate studies on piano accompaniment (as a
répétiteur) with Professor Monika Raithel as well as studying harpsichord with the renowned expert
on early music, Professor Ludger Remy.
Annegret Kuttner now teaches at the Academy of Music and Theatre, Leipzig.
In addition to her teaching post, the highly sought-after pianist regularly performs as a soloist and
chamber musician in diverse musical and cultural centres in Germany and abroad. Concert tours
have taken her to the Czech Republic, Poland, Switzerland, Turkey, Latvia, Ireland, South Africa and
the USA.
Annegret performs regularly with Benjamin Schmid, Antje Weithaas, Natalia Prishepenko, Pauline
Sachse, Ivan Zenaty and Robert Oberaigner.
In New York she played Beethoven’s complete works for cello and piano together with cellist Peter
Bruns. This concert was extremely well received by the public and press alike (New York Sun).
Various internationally acclaimed CD recordings are released, including works for cello and piano
by Louis Vierne and Charles-Marie Widor, by Robert Schumann and Robert Volkmann as well as for
the Beethoven anniversary in 2020 together with Peter Bruns/cello the cycle „Beethoven – Most
Complete 1-3“, expanding his known repertoire of five cello sonatas and three sets of variations with
another three sonatas and arrangements by Beethoven himself and by composers from his context,
for istance the sonata op. 64 (!) and the „Kreutzer“- sonata arrangement for cello by Carl Czerny.
