Projects of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar are funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the Free State of Thuringia, represented by the State Chancellery of Thuringia, Department of Culture and the Arts.
with pianist Cathleen Bergner
Cathleen Bergner completed her training in Prof Sigrid Lehmstedt's piano class at the Schloß Belvedere music high school in Weimar. She graduated with honours in piano with Prof. Sigrid Lehmstedt and in musicology at the universities in Weimar, Halle and Siena. In 2011 she completed her piano concert exam. She has taken part in numerous masterclasses, including the Weimar Masterclasses and the Salzburg International Summer Academy with professors Bernhard Ringeissen, Klaus Hellwig, Lilya Silberstein and Dmitri Bashkirov. She also works with Professor Mi-Joo Lee at the Berlin University of the Arts. Cathleen Bergner has won prizes at national and international competitions and currently performs regularly throughout Germany as a soloist and chamber musician. In addition to her concert activities, she is head of the piano department at the MKS Jena and has been artistic director of the "Piano and Chamber Music Days Jena" since 2017.