| Home About Publications Contact Interview Education Production Interview Interview with Albert Sassmann (Pianist) MOL: Tell us about your background. I was born and raised in Linz, Upper Austria, the home town of Anton Bruckner. I studied piano at the Bruckner Conservatory under Prof. Horst Matthaeus, in Linz. I continued my studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. At there, my teachers include Prof. Hans Kann and Prof. Peter Efler. I have also worked with Tatiana Nikolaeva and Jacob Lateiner at the "Summer Academy Mozarteum" in Salzburg. MOL: Are you the first one in your family to become a pianist? Well, in general, I think that the characteristic of a good musician should be to be able to play any kind of music - no matter if she or he likes it or not. But when I have the choice to select a certain repertoire for a CD, or for a concert, I certainly select pieces, to which I feel a certain kind of affinity; pieces, which were composed in a very "familiar" musical language. Fortunately we pianist are lucky to have a sheer endless list of compositions in various styles for our instrument. It is difficult to describe why one thinks such piece suits him or her better. It may be the music which one likes to hear and to play, or maybe sometimes it is the characteristic of pianistic texture, which it may attract the performer. To certain extend, selecting of music does represents you best as an artist. | |
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