Rolf Plagge

(Austria)

Mr. Plagge was born in 1959, in Westerstede, North-West Germany. As a schoolboy he learned piano in Hamburg from famous teachers like Peter –Yorgen Hofer, later entering the class of Vitaliy Margulis in Fleiburg. In 1981 he studed piano in the PaulBadura-Skoda School in Vienna and in 1983 he joined the piano class led by Gyorgi Szandor of the Juilliard School of Music in New York City. In 1991 he graduated from the Hannover Musikhochschule class of Karlheinz Kaemerling.

Rolf Plagge is the winner of many German and International competitions. He was five-time winner of the Hamburg Steinway Competitions and in 1979 he won his first international competition in Senegal, and soon afterwards prizes at the Busoni competition in Bozen (1980), ARD Competition in Muenchen (1981), the Gina Bachauer Competition in Salt Lake City (1987), the Concours Reine Elisabeth in Brussels (1987). He became the first German pianists won the Moscow Tchaikovsky Competition in 1990. Since 1991 Mr.Plagge heads the Piano Class at the Salzburg Mazarteum.

He performs on tours annually in different parts of the world, especially to South America, where he regularly performs piano recitals and conducts master classes.

His latest CDs by ES-DUR contain such rarities as Hans-Werner Henze 2^nd Piano Concerto and Georg Benda’s 2^nd Piano Concerto.

He plans to record the works by Pfitzner, Milhaud, Satie with the NDR Symphony Orchestra’s concertmaster Katarina Rabus.

Since 1995 MUSICAPHON has been distributing his recording of chamber music including the music of Ludwig Spohr with the “Pallas-Trio”.