ANDREAS HENKEL, born in 1967 in Germany, started piano playing with 8 years in his home town Freiberg (Saxonia). Prizewinner at the National Youth Competition 1983 in Zwickau, birth city of Robert Schumann. Piano and piano pedagogy study between 1984-1989 at Hochschule für Musik Dresden, diploma with remark "very good". Major formative influences from the russian pianist Arkadi Zenzipér in Dresden and Aquiles Delle Vigne in Brussels.

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•   Now based in Dresden, he performed solo recitals in many European cities: Dresden, Leipzig, Berlin, Munich (Philharmonic hall "Gasteig"), Paris, Madrid, Barcelona, Zaragoza, Sofia (National Concert Hall "Bulgaria"), Brussels (Town Hall Concerts, Palais des Beaux-Arts), Budapest, Bologna, Florence, Naples, Parma, Latina (Festival "Campus della Musica"), Zempléni Arts Festival Hungary. Solo recitals in the USA in Chicago, Columbus/Ohio, for the Chopin Society of Texas, in Japan in Tokyo and Kobe.
•   As soloist he appeared with orchestras in Germany, Italy (Orchestra Città di Ravenna), Romania, Spain (Orquesta Sinfonica de Galicia), Moldova (Crescendo Festival Orchestra), Lebanon (Lebanese National Symphony Orchestra Beirut) and Ucraine, in the USA with the Westerville Symphony and Columbus Youth Symphony Orchestra, Ohio.
•   First concert invitation to South America in 2000 for recitals to Buenos Aires and Montevideo celebrating J. S. Bach's anniversary. Since 2003 annual tours with concerts in Brasil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay with solo recitals in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paolo, Montevideo, Asuncion as well as orchestra performances with the Orquesta Filarmonica de Montevideo, Bachiana Brasileira from Rio de Janeiro and others.
•   CD recording for the german label Sächsische Tonträger, radio recordings in Dresden, Berlin, Sofia, TV recordings for Romanian and Brasilian TV. Chamber music with members of Dresden Philharmonic orchestra, Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden and other outstanding soloists. Gospel concerts with Brenda Jackson and Carol Wyatt (both former soloists of the German Opera Berlin).