Pianist Martin Tchiba was born in 1982 in Budapest and has been living in Germany since 1985. His concert appearances include performances at the following venues and festivals: Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Tokyo Opera City Recital Hall, Budapest Autumn Festival, Spoleto Festival, Braunschweig Classix Festival, Europäisches Klassik-Festival Ruhr, Unicum Festival in Ljubljana (as soloist with the Slovenian National Philharmonic), Festival Enescu in Romania, Budapest Music Weeks, Tonhalle Düsseldorf, Beethovenhaus Bonn, Flagey Brussels, in Berlin, Basel, Den Haag and Salzburg. He was also invited to give a solo performance in Berlin in the presence of the heads of state of Germany and Austria. In 2017, his social media piano project WIReless at Tonhalle Düsseldorf attracted attention.
His CDs, released on the Naxos, Telos, Hungaroton and Challenge Classics labels, received many positive reviews in international music magazines. He has made numerous live and studio recordings and broadcasts for radio and television, as with WDR Cologne, SWR, SR, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Deutschlandradio Kultur, the Hungarian and the Dutch broadcasting services. The Dutch Television made recordings at the “Bimhuis” at Muziekgebouw Amsterdam. Berlin’s RBB Kulturradio broadcast a one-hour-long portrait of the pianist, SR 2 KulturRadio aired a two-and-a-half-hour-long portrait.
In his repertoire containing works of all ages, the music of the 20th and 21st centuries plays an important role. He performs it also in combination with works from earlier times. This opens a new perspective — the familiar alongside the new. Tchiba has given the first performances of many new compositions (works by Gerhard Stäbler, Michael Denhoff, Moritz Eggert, Johannes Kreidler, Kunsu Shim, György Kurtág, László Sáry and others).
Following several years of piano studies with Karl-Heinz Kämmerling in Hannover and outstanding successes in competitions for young musicians, Martin Tchiba studied at the Musikhochschule in Saarbrücken with Thomas Duis and at the Musikakademie in Basel with Jean-Jacques Dünki.
Tchiba was given various scholarships and awards, including scholarships from the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and from the German Academic Exchange Service DAAD, the Cultural Award (Kulturförderpreis) of the Federal State Capital Saarbrücken as well as promotions from the Kunststiftung NRW. Martin Tchiba was the artistic leader of a project launched by “Bipolar — German-Hungarian Culture Projects” and the German National Cultural Foundation on the subject of innovative music instruction (2006/07).
Additionally, he studied composition with Michael Denhoff in Bonn. Tchiba’s works have been performed at the International Gaudeamus Music Week in Amsterdam and at the aDevantgarde Festival in Munich, among others.
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