Amadeus Wiesensee (*1993) made his debut as a twelve-year-old with the Munich Radio Orchestra. In June 2019, the Süddeutsche Zeitung praised the performance of Johannes Brahms’ Piano Trio in B major with Arabella Steinbacher as »poetic and rapturous on a world-class level« and wrote on the occasion of his concert at the opening of the Nymphenburger Sommer: » This young man has an almost uncanny sense of the dark places, the veiled spaces, the contemplative and its shadings. He is far from content with brilliantly illuminating the foreground of the pieces; the musical process allows him to give access, so to speak, to the echo chambers and fields of association that lie behind them. At its most exalted moments it seems as if one can explore the music as a three-dimensional environment.«

In 2022/23 Wiesensee debuts at venues including the Bremen Glocke, the Mendelssohn-Haus Leipzig, the Dresden Frauenkirche, for the Neumarkter Konzertfreunde, at the Schubertiade Barcelona and returns to festivals such as the Beethovenfest Bonn and the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. In 2021, he was awarded the Bavarian State Ministry for Science and Art’s Art Promotion Prize in the category of music and was the first artist-in-residence of the Beethoven-Haus Bonn. Furthermore, in September 2022 he was awarded a special prize at the International Competition for Lied Art of the Hugo Wolf Academy together with his Lied partner Katja Maderer.

At the age of eight he became a pupil of Prof. Thomas Böckheler at the Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich, and from 2007 a junior student of Prof. Karl-Heinz Kämmerling at the Mozarteum Salzburg. After the latter’s death, he took up studies with Prof. Antti Siirala at the University of Music and Theatre in Munich in 2013, with whom he studied following the artistic bachelor’s and master’s programmes as part of the master’s programme in New Music. He was also a scholarship holder of Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now Munich, the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, the Jürgen Ponto Foundation and the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben.

Numerous master classes with Sir András Schiff, Maria João Pires, Richard Goode, Dimitri Bashkirov, Leon Fleisher, Matti Raekallio and Hélène Grimaud, among others, complemented his education. He received particularly lasting impulses from Alfred Brendel, Elisabeth Leonskaja and, in the lied field, from Christian Gerhaher and KS Christiane Iven.

His chamber music and stage partners have included Klaus Maria Brandauer, Arabella Steinbacher, Eckart Runge, Daniel Müller-Schott, Gustav Rivinius, Veronika Eberle, Julian Prégardien, Lydia Teuscher, Reto Bieri and Pablo Barragán.

Invitations to concerts have taken Wiesensee to the Ruhr Piano Festival, the Schleswig Holstein Music Festival, the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, the Bologna Festival, the Oxford Piano Festival, the Davos Festival, the Richard Strauss Festival, the Beethovenfest Bonn, the Rheingau Music Festival, the Würzburg Mozart Festival, the Gut Opera Festival and many others.

Amadeus Wiesensee has repeatedly won first prizes at national and international competitions, including the German national competition Jugend musiziert, the Karl Lang Competition, the Schumann Competition Zwickau and the International Piano Podium Munich. In 2018, he was one of the six nominees for the International German Pianist Award out of over a hundred applications worldwide. He has performed live on several occasions on radio stations such as BR, WDR, SWR and BCC, as well as on Bavarian television. In February 2019, he was awarded the »Kulturstern des Jahres« in the classical category by the Münchner Abendzeitung.

In January 2014, he made his debut with the Bavarian State Youth Orchestra with Franz Liszt’s First Piano Concerto at the Philharmonie in Munich, which was broadcast by BR-Klassik. As a soloist, he has played with the Deutsche Streicherphilharmonie, the Munich Chamber Orchestra, the Heidelberg Philharmonic, the Neue Philharmonie Westfalen, the Bergische Symphoniker, the Bad Reichenhall Philharmonic and the Bavarian State Youth Orchestra under conductors such as Dimitri Jurowski, Michael Sanderling, Sebastian Tewinkel, Peter Kuhn and Clemens Schuldt.

Amadeus Wiesensee has already been entrusted with numerous world premieres by composers such as Wilfried Hiller, John Foulds, Wolfgang-Andreas Schultz and Birke Bertelsmeier.

Amadeus Wiesensee’s second great interest is philosophy, which he also pursued in parallel studies, graduating from the Munich University of Philosophy in July 2015 with a Bachelor of Arts and top marks. He is a regular speaker and pianist at Heidelberg University as part of the Heidelberg Lectures on Cultural Theory. He was also invited as a Guest Lecturer at Bard College Berlin in 2021 and gave a TED Talk at TEDxVaduz.