»IMPRESSIVE ARTISTIC PERSONALITY«

GIDON KREMER

»EXCELLENT UNDERSTANDING OF CHAMBER MUSIC WITH A BRILLIANT SENSE OF SOUND«

ANDRAS SCHIFF

Niklas Liepe: One of those highly talented young soloists who consistently follow their own path. One of those artists who constantly hatch new ideas and, in doing so, also tackle undertakings that really call for courage: because concept and artistic aspiration verge on presumptuousness.

With his Paganini Project, Niklas Liepe has caused astonishment and glowing reviews internationally in recent years. He has commissioned around twenty composers and arrangers to provide Niccolò Paganini's hair-raisingly difficult caprices for solo violin with orchestral accompaniments – but in such a way that each of the pieces appears in a different stylistic guise. Foxtrot and tango, jazz and romantic bombast alternate in these amusing and almost irreverent reinterpretations, whereby the original violin part always remains untouched.

In 2017, together with his brother, he founded the »Liepe & Co. Festival in the Stahlhallen am Südbahnhof in Hanover«, in which he also explores the boundaries of classical music anew.

In the 2023/2024 season, Niklas Liepe can be heard with the NDR Hannover, the Munich Radio Orchestra, the WDR Funkhausorchester, the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra or the Royal Bangkok Symphony Orchestra, among others, in Europe and Asia. He will make his debut at the Rheingau Music Festival, the Beethovenfest Bonn and the Ocean Sun Festival. He will be a lecturer at Villa Musica Rheinland-Pfalz and The Academy of Performing Arts in Prague.

In autumn 2020, his second CD project #GoldergReflections together with conductor Jamie Phillips and the NDR Radiophilharmonie will be released by SONY Classical. In 2021, Niklas Liepe won the Opus Klassik. He has won prizes in numerous competitions, including the German Music Competition.

In 2023, Oscar winner Rachel Portman will write a violin concerto for Niklas Liepe, which will then be recorded together with the WDR Rundfunkorchester in autumn 2023 and released by Sony Classical.

Niklas Liepe has performed with artists such as Gidon Kremer, Yuri Bashmet, Fazil Say, Christoph Eschenbach and Andras Schiff. As a soloist, Niklas Liepe performs with various orchestras such as the Frankfurt Opera and Museum Orchestra, the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Bratislava, the Kaohsiung City Symphony Orchestra, the NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover or the Deutsche Radiophilharmonie Saarbrücken/ Kaiserslautern under conductors such as Jamie Phillips, Christoph Koncz, Christoph Eschenbach and others.

Liepe studied at the Hanover Academy of Music with Prof. Krzyztof Wegrzyn, at the Cologne Academy of Music with Prof. Zakhar Bron and at the Kronberg Academy with Prof. Ana Chumachenco and Prof. Mihaela Martin. With Prof. Oliver Wille in Hanover, he completed his Master in chamber music.