Duo Weirich Löffler

Hannah Weirich was a young student with Prof. Federico Agostini, studied with Prof. Ingolf Turban at the HfM Stuttgart from 1999–2004 and attended master classes with Franco Gulli, Yfrah Neaman, Igor Ozim and Dénes Zsigmondy, among others. Since 1992 she has performed worldwide with her piano trio Trio Fridegk, with which she has won several national and international prizes. In 2005 she became a permanent member of the Ensemble Musikfabrik. She has performed as a soloist with, among others, the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra and the Krakow State Philharmonic Orchestra, worked with Ensemble Resonanz, ascolta, the Neue Vocalsolisten, or the jazz formation Shreefpunk, and was a lecturer with, among others, the German Federal Youth Orchestra, Studio Musikfabrik, and from 2014 to 2017 as part of the master’s program in New Music at Folkwang University of the Arts Essen. In 2004 she received a scholarship from the Rudolf Eberle Foundation with a one-year residency at the Akademie Schloss Solitude, and in 2011 she was awarded the Förderpreis des Landes NRW.

 

Ulrich Löffler completed his piano studies at the Folkwang Hochschule Essen. As a soloist, he has performed with the Bavarian Radio and SWR Symphony Orchestras, among others, and has been a guest at international festivals such as the Salzburg Festival, the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival and Ars Musica Brussels. Löffler is a prizewinner of the Darmstadt International Summer Courses for New Music. As a founding member, he has performed with Ensemble Musikfabrik at all international festivals since 1990. As a lecturer, Ulrich Löffler taught at the Folkwang University of the Arts Essen from 1998 to 2003 as part of the master’s degree program in New Music. In addition to his commitment to composed contemporary music, he also performs in improvisation projects and gives concerts with rock and jazz bands.