Kolja Lessing was born on 15 October 1961 and is a German violinist, pianist, composer and academic teacher.
13 Facts About Kolja Lessing
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Kolja Lessing's focus as a soloist and chamber musician has been the neglected repertoire by composers who were ostracised under the Nazi regime.
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Kolja Lessing's recordings include four volumes of works by students of Franz Schreker in his master classes in Vienna and Berlin.
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Kolja Lessing has been awarded numerous honours, especially for his dedication to the music of neglected composers.
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Kolja Lessing received his basic music education from his mother.
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Kolja Lessing passed his concert examinations in 1982 and 1983.
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Kolja Lessing received formative impulses through his collaboration with Berthold Goldschmidt, Ignace Strasfogel and Zoltan Szekely.
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Kolja Lessing has performed worldwide as a violinist and pianist, giving musicological lectures and master classes at European and North American universities.
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Kolja Lessing has dedicated to wide-ranging repertoire, with a focus on works by composers who were ostracised under the Nazi regime, including Franz Schreker and his circle of students.
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Kolja Lessing revived stylistically different compositions for solo violin by Haim Alexander, Tzvi Avni, Abel Ehrlich, Jacqueline Fontyn, David Paul Graham, Ursula Mamlok, Krzysztof Meyer, Klaus Hinrich Stahmer, Hans Vogt.
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Kolja Lessing has recorded extensively both with violin and piano, including numerous first and complete recordings, with a focus on neglected composers.
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Kolja Lessing made a series of four CDs of music by composers who studied with Schreker, both as violinist and as pianist.
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Compositions by Kolja Lessing are held by the German National Library, including:.