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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
Vogt in 2018
Born	(1970-09-08)8 September 1970 Düren, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany
Died	5 September 2022(2022-09-05) (aged 51) Erlangen, Bavaria, Germany
Education	Musikhochschule Hannover
Occupation	Classical pianist Conductor Academic teacher
Organizations	Berlin Philharmonic Spannungen Musikhochschule Hannover Royal Northern Sinfonia Orchestre de chambre de Paris
Awards	Leeds International Piano Competition Brahms-Preis Opus Klassik

Life and career

Vogt was born in Düren on 8 September 1970 and began taking piano lessons at the age of six.[2] He studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover with Karl-Heinz Kämmerling.[3][4] He rose to prominence after winning second prize at the 1990 Leeds International Piano Competition[5] and went on to give major concerto and recital performances.[6][7] His first major recordings were with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra conducted by Simon Rattle, first in 1992 Schumann's Piano Concerto and Grieg's Piano Concerto. On the record cover, pianist and conductor appeared in informal clothes, which was new at the time.[8] They went on to record Beethoven's Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 in 1995. Vogt first played with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Vienna Philharmonic, the London Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Boston Symphony Orchestra.[5] He first appeared with the New York Philharmonic and Lorin Maazel in the 2003/04 season. He had a close relationship with the Berlin Philharmonic[5] who made him their first pianist in residence, again with Rattle.[3][6] Vogt recorded commercially for such labels as EMI/Warner Classics, Avi Music, and Ondine.[3][9]

He was a dedicated chamber musician, focused on the repertoire of music from the classical period and the romantic era. He also collaborated with composers such as Volker David Kirchner, Thomas Larcher, Kryštof Mařatka and Erkki-Sven Tüür.[10] He founded the festival Spannungen for chamber music in Heimbach (Eifel) in the hydro-electric power plant Kraftwerk Heimbach in 1998.[4][6] Many of the concerts with friends were recorded live. Reviewer Jan Brachmann from the FAZ noted that Dvořák's Dumky Trio was played by violinist Christian Tetzlaff, cellist Tanja Tetzlaff and Vogt, as if the players took time for sinking together into moods ("für das gemeinsame Versinken in Stimmungen").[8] Vogt gave his last concert there, playing on 26 June 2022 with Christian Tetzlaff, Barbara Buntrock and Tanja Tetzlaff[11] the Piano Quartet No. 3 by Johannes Brahms.[12]

Vogt founded the initiative Rhapsody in School [de], a network of classical musicians who play in school lessons to provide children a personal close meeting with musicians and their music.[8]

After Kämmerling's death in 2012, he succeeded him as professor of piano at the Musikhochschule Hannover.[6][13]

Conductor

In May 2014, the Royal Northern Sinfonia announced the appointment of Vogt as its next music director, his first post as a conductor, effective September 2015.[14][15][16] Vogt served as music director until 2020,[17] and had the title of Principal Artistic Partner with the orchestra.[5] 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.[18] In December 2021, the OCP announced an extension of Vogt's contract through June 2025.[19] He held the OCP post until his death.[6]

Private life

Vogt was first married to the Russian composer Tatjana Komarova.[3] He lived with his second wife, violinist Anna Reszniak, and three children[5] in Nuremberg, Bavaria.[20] In February 2021, Vogt was diagnosed with cancer of the throat and liver,[5] continuing to play while receiving treatment,[21] and recording between rounds of chemotherapy.[6]

Vogt died in a clinic in Erlangen in the presence of his family[8] on 5 September 2022, three days before his 52nd birthday.[2][6][22][23]

Awards

In 2004, Vogt was awarded both the Brahms-Preis[24] and the Echo Klassik. He was awarded the Kulturpreis der Sparkassen-Kulturstiftung Rheinland [de] in 2006,[25] and received the Würth Prize of Jeunesses Musicales Germany in 2016.[26] 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]

Discography

Gramophone has regarded several of Vogt's recordings as benchmarks, as solo pianist, chamber musician and soloist and conductor with orchestra.[27] Many recordings were made live at the Spannungen festival by label Avi (of CAvi), marked by the festival's name in the label column.

Title	Instrument	Year	Recorded with	Label
Schumann: Piano Concerto, Grieg: Piano Concerto[6]	Piano	1992	City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Simon Rattle	Warner Classics
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1[6]	Piano	1996	City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Simon Rattle	Warner Classics
Prokofiev: Cello Sonata & Shostakovich: Cello Sonata[28]	Piano	1996	Truls Mørk	Erato
Schubert: Piano Trio No. 1 & Introduction and Variations on 'Trockne Blumen'[29]	Piano		Antje Weithaas, Tanja Tetzlaff, Chiara Tonelli, Silke Avenhaus	Avi
Brahms & Berg: Works for Clarinet and Piano[30]	Piano	2003	Sabine Meyer	Warner Classics
Franck, Ravel, Saint-Saëns: Violin Sonatas[31]	Piano	2004	Sarah Chang	Warner Classics
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 & Triple Concerto[32]	Piano	2006	Gordan Nikolitch, Tim Hugh, London Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Haitink	LSO Live
Schubert: Piano Trio No. 2, D. 929[33]	Piano	2006	Christian Tetzlaff, Tanja Tetzlaff	Avi
Brahms: Chamber Music	Piano	2006	Christian Tetzlaff, Isabelle Faust	Avi
Schubert: Piano Music[34]	Piano	2008	(solo)	Avi
Sharon Kam – Works for Clarinet[35]	Piano	2008	Sharon Kam, Antje Weithaas, Gustav Rivinius	Avi
Schumann: Piano Quintet & Elgar: Piano Quintet[36]	Piano	2008		Avi (Spannungen)
Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 20 & 23[37]	Piano	2009	Mozarteum Orchester, Ivor Bolton	Oehms
Bach – Chamber Music[38]	Piano	2009		Avi (Spannungen)
Dvořák, Schumann & Reimann: Chamber Works[39]	Piano	2010		Avi (Spannungen)
Liszt: Piano Sonata in B Minor, Schumann: Fantasie in C[27][40]	Piano	2010	(solo)	Berlin Classics
Brahms: Viola Sonatas, Op. 120[41]	Piano	2011	Rachel Roberts	Avi
Tchaikovsky: String Quartet No. 3 & Shostakovich Piano Trio No. 2[42]	Piano	2011		Avi (Spannungen)
Smetana, Ravel and Watkins: Piano Trios[43]	Piano	2012		Avi (Spannungen)
Mozart: Violin Sonatas[27][44]	Piano	2012	Christian Tetzlaff	Ondine
Schumann: Violin Sonatas[27][45]	Piano	2013	Christian Tetzlaff	Ondine
Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 21 & 27[46]	Piano	2013	Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Järvi	Avi
Nadia Boulanger, Nadia Boulanger, Hindemith & Debussy: Chamber Works[47]	Piano	2013		Avi (Spannungen)
Dvořák & Shostakovich: Piano Trios[48]	Piano	2014		Avi (Spannungen)
Chopin[49]	Piano	2014	(solo)	Avi
Brahms: Piano Trios Nos. 1–3[27][50]	Piano	2015	Christian Tetzlaff, Tanja Tetzlaff	Ondine
Bach: Goldberg Variations[27][51]	Piano	2015	(solo)	Ondine
Schubert, Britten & Shostakovich: Works for Viola and Piano[52]	Piano	2016	Rachel Roberts	Avi
Mozart & Mendelssohn: Concertos for Piano[53]	Conductor	2016	Danae Dorken, Royal Northern Sinfonia	ARS
For children:[54] Thomas Larcher's 12 Stücke für Kinder "Poems", excerpts from Schumann's Album für die Jugend and Bartok's For Children[55]	Piano	2016	(solo)	Avi
Brahms: Violin Sonatas[27][56]	Piano	2016	Christian Tetzlaff	Ondine
Schubert[57]	Piano	2016	(solo)	Ondine
Beethoven: Piano Concertos 1 & 5[58]	Piano, Conductor	2017	Royal Northern Sinfonia	Ondine
Beethoven: Triple Concerto, Piano Concerto No. 3[59]	Piano, Conductor	2017	Christian Tetzlaff, Tanja Tetzlaff, Royal Northern Sinfonia	Ondine
Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 4[27][60]	Piano, Conductor	2018	Royal Northern Sinfonia	Ondine
Schumann: Cello Concerto & works for cello and piano[61]	Piano	2018	Gabriel Schwabe, Northern Sinfonia	Naxos
Dvořák: Piano Trios Nos. 3 & 4[27][62]	Piano	2018	Christian Tetzlaff, Tanja Tetzlaff	Ondine
Mozart: Piano Sonatas K. 280, K. 281, K. 310, K. 333[27][63]	Piano	2019	(solo)	Ondine
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 & Four Ballades[27][64]	Piano, Conductor	2019	Royal Northern Sinfonia	Ondine
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 & Handel Variations[27][65]	Piano, Conductor	2020	Royal Northern Sinfonia	Ondine
Janáček: On an Overgrown Path, In the Mists, Sonata 1. X. 1905[66]	Piano	2021	(solo)	Ondine
Beethoven: Violin Sonatas, Op. 30[67][68]	Piano	2021	Christian Tetzlaff	Ondine
Schumann & Strauss: Melodramas[69]	Piano	2022	Isabelle Vogt (narrator)	Ondine
Mendelssohn: Piano Concertos & Capriccio Brillant[27][70]	Piano, Conductor	2022	Orchestre de Chambre de Paris	Ondine
Schubert: Schwanengesang[71]	Piano	2022	Ian Bostridge	Pentatone

References

External links

• Official website
• Lars Vogt discography at Discogs
• Lars Vogt at IMDb
• Lars Vogt (management) Askonas Holt
• "Facing the music": Lars Vogt (interview) The Guardian, 13 July 2015

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

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[ru] Фогт, Ларс

Ларс Фогт (нем. Lars Vogt; 8 сентября 1970, Дюрен, Северный Рейн-Вестфалия, ФРГ[1] — 5 сентября 2022[2], Эрланген, Бавария, Германия) — немецкий пианист.

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