Bechstein Young Professionals is perhaps the most unique concert series in the city - and that may mean something in Berlin, but we don't promise too much: because at the concert series in the private concert hall for up to 70 listeners at the C. Bechstein Centrum in LIVING BERLIN (1st floor), international young pianists play a concert for you free of charge.
April 03, 2025, 7:30 pm: Sonja Kowollik
On Thursday, April 3, 2025 at 7:30 pm, the young pianist Sonja Kowollik will present works by Schumann, Prokofiev and Szymanowski at the C. Bechstein Centrum Berlin.
Sonja Kowollik, born in Bottrop in 2001, received her first piano lessons at the age of five and became a junior student at the Münster Youth Academy with Thomas Reckmann and Michael Keller at the age of nine. She then studied with Claudio Martínez Mehner and Nina Tichman in Cologne and with Matti Raekallio in Helsinki. She is currently studying in Eldar Nebolsin's class at the Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin.
Sonja has received numerous awards, including the GWK Music Prize 2021, the International Bacewicz Prize 2022 and first prizes at the national Jugend musiziert competition. At the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival 2017, she impressed the jury with "her balanced touch, keen sense of musical line and sympathetic aplomb" and received the Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe Sponsorship Award. She was awarded the first Menahem Pressler Scholarship at the Oxford Piano Festival 2023. As an enthusiastic and sought-after chamber musician, Sonja has also received numerous awards, including the Beethoven Bonnensis Prize.
She has been invited to perform at the Beethovenfest Bonn, the Encuentro de Santander, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival as well as at the Cologne Philharmonie, the Laeiszhalle Hamburg, the Tonhalle Düsseldorf and Schloss Bellevue. As a soloist, she has performed with the Münster Symphony Orchestra, the Camerata Hungarica, the Ruhrstadt Orchestra and the Collegium Musicum Münster, among others. She has also performed in other European countries, Japan, Australia and India. Sonja is a scholarship holder of the International Music Academy in Liechtenstein.
Program:
Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937)
Mazurkas op. 5
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)
Romeo and Juliet. Ten piano pieces op. 75
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Piano Sonata No. 2 in G minor op. 22
Photo: © Anna Tena
Registration at: s.roszak@bechstein.de
Limited seating capacity: 70 people
Free admission
