Paul Rivinius
Paul Rivinius is best known as a chamber music player and as a vocal accompanist. He has performed and recorded on both the piano and the French horn.
Rivinius was born in Munich, Germany, in 1970. His first instrument was the piano, which he took up at age five. He attended the Musikhochschule Saarbrücken, studying piano with Nerine Barrett, Walter Blankenheim, and Alexander Sellier. After completing his studies there, he moved to the Musikhochschule Frankfurt and studied both piano (with Raymund Havenith) and horn (with Marie-Luise Neunecker). Rivinius rounded off his studies with Gerhard Oppitz at the Musikhochschule München, receiving a degree with distinction in the school's advanced piano course in 1998. By that time, his professional career was already well underway. He played horn for several years with the Bundesjugendorchester Deutschland and the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester youth orchestras, in the latter under the baton of Claudio Abbado. In 1996, Rivinius joined the Clemente Trio on piano, and with that group won major prizes, including the ARD Competition in 1998. He toured with the Clemente Trio to New York's Carnegie Hall and Wigmore Hall in London. Rivinius also began performing chamber music with his brother Gustav, a cellist. They added two more brothers and began performing as the Rivinius Piano Quartet. In 2004, Rivinius replaced Tamara-Anna Cislowska in the Mozart Piano Quartet, a chamber group that has toured Europe, North America, and South America. For some years, he juggled these responsibilities with teaching at the Academy of Music Hanns Eisler in Berlin; he later began performing on a freelance basis in Munich.
Rivinius has a large catalog of recordings made with various other chamber performers on labels, including BIS, MDG, and CAvi-Music. He has often recorded with cellist Johannes Moser; the pair issued the three-volume survey Brahms and His Contemporaries on the Hänssler Classic label late in the 2000s decade. He has also recorded viola-and-piano music with violist Christian Euler. Additionally, Rivinius is active as a vocal accompanist and in 2020 backed soprano Camilla Tilling on a BIS album of songs associated with the Jugendstil artistic movement.
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Russische Hornkonzerte
Marie-Luise Neunecker, Paul Rivinius, Bamberger Symphoniker, Werner Andreas Albert
Klassiek - Released by Deutsche Grammophon (DG) on 1 jan. 1994
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Johanna Senfter: Works for Violin
Friedemann Eichhorn, Alexia Eichhorn, Paul Rivinius
Klassiek - Released by paladino music on 1 dec. 2018
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Debussy: Works for Flute & Piano
Klassiek - Released by PENTATONE on 12 jan. 2024
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Mozart: Violin Sonata No. 21 in E Minor, K. 304 (Arr. for Flute & Piano)
Kamermuziek - Released by PentaTone on 15 apr. 2022
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Kodály
Julian Steckel, Paul Rivinius, Antje Weithaas
Klassiek - Released by Cavi-Music on 19 jul. 2019
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Meyer & Shostakovich: Works for Cello & Piano
Kamermuziek - Released by Kaleidos Musikeditionen on 10 feb. 2023
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Musique pour alto et piano
Kamermuziek - Released by Ars Produktion on 7 feb. 2012
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French Cello Sonatas (Poulenc, Saint-Saens, Debussy, Fauré & Boulanger)
Klassiek - Released by Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin on 8 sep. 2011
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Mendelssohn: Works for Cello and Piano
Klassiek - Released by Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin on 14 apr. 2009
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Poulenc: Chamber Music
Ensemble Arabesques, Paul Rivinius
Kamermuziek - Released by Farao Classics on 17 mei 2019
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Julian Steckel, violoncelle
Kamermuziek - Released by Oehms Classics on 1 apr. 2013
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Bax & Bliss & Vaughan Williams: Viola & Piano Sonatas
Christian Euler, Paul Rivinius
Klassiek - Released by Musikproduktion Dabringhaus und Grimm (MDG) on 1 feb. 2013
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I skogen: Nordic Songs
Camilla Tilling, Paul Rivinius
Klassiek - Released by BIS on 1 jul. 2015
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Bridge, Britten and Bax: Cello Sonatas
Kamermuziek - Released by SWR Classic on 27 jul. 2010
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MARTUCCI, G.: Cello Sonata / BRAHMS, J.: Lieder (arr. for cello) / KIRCHNER, T.: 8 Pieces (Brahms and his Contemporaries, Vol. 3) (Moser, Rivinius)
Kamermuziek - Released by SWR Classic on 1 mrt. 2009
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Fitzenhagen, W.: Cello Music
Jens Peter Maintz, Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Paul Rivinius, Peter Rundel
Klassiek - Released by Oehms Classics on 1 jan. 2005
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BRAHMS / FUCHS / ZEMLINSKY: Cello Sonatas (Brahms and his Contemporaries, Vol. 1)
Kamermuziek - Released by SWR Classic on 1 jan. 2007
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WEINBERG / SHOSTAKOVICH / TCHAIKOVSKY, B.: Cello Sonatas
Kamermuziek - Released by SWR Classic on 1 jan. 2006
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BRAHMS, J. / STRAUSS, R. / HERZOGENBERG, H.: Cello Sonatas (Brahms and his Contemporaries, Vol. 2) (Moser, Rivinius)
Kamermuziek - Released by SWR Classic on 1 jan. 2000
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Jugendstil
Camilla Tilling, Paul Rivinius
Klassiek - Released by BIS on 6 dec. 2019
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