21 Facts About Lars Vogt

Lars Vogt was a German classical pianist, conductor and academic teacher.

Lars Vogt was the music director of the Orchestre de chambre de Paris at the time of his death and served as the music director of the Royal Northern Sinfonia.

Lars Vogt ran a festival of chamber music, Spannungen, from 1998, and succeeded his teacher Karl-Heinz Kammerling as professor of piano at the Musikhochschule Hannover.

Lars Vogt was born in Duren on 8 September 1970 and began taking piano lessons at the age of six.

Lars Vogt studied at the Hochschule fur Musik und Theater Hannover with Karl-Heinz Kammerling.

Lars Vogt rose to prominence after winning second prize at the 1990 Leeds International Piano Competition and went on to give major concerto and recital performances.

Lars Vogt first played with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Vienna Philharmonic, the London Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Boston Symphony Orchestra.

Lars Vogt had a close relationship with the Berlin Philharmonic who made him their first pianist in residence, again with Rattle.

Lars Vogt was a dedicated chamber musician, focused on the repertoire of music from the classical period and the romantic era.

Lars Vogt collaborated with composers such as Volker David Kirchner, Thomas Larcher, Krystof Maratka and Erkki-Sven Tuur.

Lars Vogt founded the festival Spannungen for chamber music in Heimbach in the hydro-electric power plant Kraftwerk Heimbach in 1998.

Lars Vogt gave his last concert there, playing on 26 June 2022 with Christian Tetzlaff, Barbara Buntrock and Tanja Tetzlaff the Piano Quartet No 3 by Johannes Brahms.

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

Lars Vogt served as music director until 2020, and had the title of Principal Artistic Partner with the orchestra.

Lars Vogt was first married to the Russian composer Tatjana Komarova.

Lars Vogt lived with his second wife, violinist Anna Reszniak, and one child in Nuremberg, Bavaria.

In February 2021, Lars Vogt was diagnosed with cancer of the throat and liver, continuing to play while receiving treatment, and recording between rounds of chemotherapy.

Lars Vogt died in a clinic in Erlangen in the presence of his family on 5 September 2022, three days before his 52nd birthday.

In 2004, Lars Vogt was awarded both the Brahms-Preis and the Echo Klassik.

Lars Vogt was awarded the Kulturpreis der Sparkassen-Kulturstiftung Rheinland in 2006, and received the Wurth Prize of Jeunesses Musicales Germany in 2016.

Lars Vogt was awarded an Opus Klassik in 2021 and the Pablo Casals Award posthum in 2023.