Benjamin Engeli
Swiss pianist Benjamin Engeli is an unusually versatile musician, with output ranging from Beethoven to contemporary music to a unique experiment with the music of Gershwin. Engeli is also noted as a piano educator. He was born in 1978 in the small Swiss city of Kreuzlingen and grew up in a musical family. He experimented with various instruments, however, and did not begin piano lessons until he was 15, working with Adrian Oetiker. He made rapid progress, and later studied with András Schiff, Maurizio Pollini, and Lazar Berman. Even at the Musikakademie Basel he pursued a dual study track, in piano and French horn, but after moving on for graduate study at the Zurich University of the Arts (with Homero Francesch), he devoted himself to the piano exclusively. Graduating in 2003, he formed the Tecchler Trio, which won the 2007 ARD Music Competition. That year, Engeli joined the Gershwin Piano Quartet: not an ensemble of piano and strings but a group of four pianos playing arrangements of Gershwin's music. Engeli made some of those arrangements himself, including on the group's 2010 CD. The group was an international success, mounting tours in China, Brazil, and the Middle East; he has also appeared as a soloist or teacher in North and South America, Australia, and India. In 2010 Engeli also launched his own solo recording career with a group of Beethoven piano sonatas on the Solo Musica label. He has also recorded for NEOS, Claves, Challenge Classics, and Ars Produktion, returning to Solo Musica to accompany Astrid and Sonja Leutwyler on Hymne à la Beauté in 2018. In 2013 he was part of a chamber group that premiered new works by Tobias PM Schneid. Engeli taught piano for eight years at the Musikhochschule Basel, and then moved to a piano professorship at the Landeskonservatorium Feldkirch in Austria.
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Discography
20 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Zurich Ensemble: Scheherazade
Zurich Ensemble, Fabio Di Casola, Kamilla Schatz, Benjamin Engeli
Klassiek - Released by paladino music on 1 aug. 2014
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Gods, Rhythms, Human
Fabian Ziegler, Akvile Sileikaite, Bruce Hamilton, Luca Staffelbach, John Psathas, Benjamin Engeli
Klassiek - Released by Ars Produktion on 19 mrt. 2021
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Bach Sonatas BWV 1027-1029, Pärt: Spiegel Im Spiegel
Annette Bartholdy, Benjamin Engeli
Kamermuziek - Released by Prospero Classical on 6 jan. 2023
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Tchaikovsky: Cello and Piano Works
Fulvia Mancini, Benjamin Engeli
Klassiek - Released by Halidon on 17 feb. 2023
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Passionate Cello and Piano Works
Benjamin Engeli, Fulvia Mancini
Klassiek - Released by Halidon on 3 feb. 2023
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Arvo Pärt: Spiegel im Spiegel (Version for Viola and Piano)
Annette Bartholdy, Benjamin Engeli
Kamermuziek - Released by Prospero Classical on 9 dec. 2022
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Arvo Pärt: Fratres (Version for Viola and Piano)
Annette Bartholdy, Benjamin Engeli
Kamermuziek - Released by Prospero Classical on 23 dec. 2022
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Constellations Ardentes
Olivier Darbellay, Noëlle-Anne Darbellay, Benjamin Engeli
Klassiek - Released by Challenge Classics on 9 mrt. 2018
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Hymne à la beauté
Sonja Leutwyler, Astrid Leutwyler, Benjamin Nyffenegger, Hanna Weinmeister, Lumina String Quartet, Benjamin Engeli
Klassiek - Released by Solo Musica on 13 jul. 2018
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Sonates pour piano
Klassiek - Released by Solo Musica on 25 nov. 2016
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Reminiscences: Romantic Works for Violin & Piano
Lisa Schatzman, Benjamin Engeli
Kamermuziek - Released by Claves Records on 15 apr. 2014
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Secret Nights
Sonja Leutwyler, Astrid Leutwyler, Benjamin Engeli, Benjamin Nyffenegger
Kamermuziek - Released by Solo Musica on 17 mrt. 2023
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Schneid: New Works
Esther Hoppe, Tecchler Trio, Benjamin Engeli, Maximilian Hornung
Klassiek - Released by NEOS Music on 31 mei 2013
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Swiss Clarinet Music
Bernhard Röthlisberger, Benjamin Engeli, Nils Kohler, Ernesto Molinari
Kamermuziek - Released by Musiques Suisses on 4 dec. 2020
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Brahms: Piano Works
Klassiek - Released by Ars Produktion on 22 jun. 2018
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Sonata for Viola da Gamba in D Major, BWV 1028 (Arr. for Viola and Piano by Ernst-Günter Heinemann) (Arr. for Viola and Piano Ernst-Günter Heinemann)
Annette Bartholdy, Benjamin Engeli
Kamermuziek - Released by Prospero Classical on 16 dec. 2022
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Sonata for Viola da Gamba in G Major, BWV 1027 (Arr. for Viola and Piano by Ernst-Günter Heinemann) (Arr. for Viola and Piano Ernst-Günter Heinemann)
Annette Bartholdy, Benjamin Engeli
Kamermuziek - Released by Prospero Classical on 2 dec. 2022
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Beethoven: Violin Sonatas
Kamilla Schatz, Benjamin Engeli
Klassiek - Released by Ars Produktion on 17 aug. 2018
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Sonata for Viola da Gamba in G Minor, BWV 1029 (Arr. for Viola and Piano by Ernst-Günter Heinemann) (Arr. for Viola and Piano Ernst-Günter Heinemann)
Annette Bartholdy, Benjamin Engeli
Kamermuziek - Released by Prospero Classical on 30 dec. 2022
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Sonata for Viola da Gamba in G Major, BWV 1027 (Arr. for Viola and Piano by Ernst-Günter Heinemann)
Annette Bartholdy, Benjamin Engeli
Kamermuziek - Released by Prospero Classical on 2 dec. 2022
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo