Piano

Justus Zeyen

Debut at Luzerner Sinfonieorchester in January 2025

Born in Kiel, Justus Zeyen initially took piano lessons with Cord Garben before studying in Hanover with Karl Engel and Bernhard Ebert, among others.

Concerts as a soloist and chamber musician, but mainly as a Lieder-pianist, have taken Justus Zeyen throughout Europe, the USA and Japan. He has performed with Juliane Banse, Christiane Karg, Dorothea Röschmann, Diana Damrau, Measha Brueggergosman, Florian Boesch, Siegfried Lorenz, Michael Schade and the choirs of the Bavarian, Central and South German Radio. He has given recitals at La Scala in Milan, the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, the Theater an der Wien, the Berlin and Vienna Festwochen, the Munich Opera Festival, the Festwochen Bad Kissingen, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, the Mostly Mozart New York, the Tanglewood Music Festival, the Tokyo Spring Festival and the Oregon Bach Festival.

Since their first concerts together at the Lockenhaus Chamber Music Festival in 1994, Justus Zeyen has worked very closely with Thomas Quasthoff. They have performed at venues including the Berlin Philharmonie, Wigmore Hall London, the Musikverein and Konzerthaus Vienna, the Salzburg Festival, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Madrid, Barcelona, San Francisco, Boston, Los Angeles and Carnegie Hall New York.

All recordings released by Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft have been awarded several prizes such as the Echo Klassik, Cannes Award, German Record Critics’ Award and Grammy nominations.

Justus Zeyen taught at the Hanover University of Music until summer 2020. Since the fall of 2020, he has held a professorship for Lied interpretation at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna.

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