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Christian Rieger
was born in 1965 and studied, after
working the piano with Maria Bergmann, at the
Musikhochschule in Karlsruhe(church music) and the Music
Academie in Basle, where his teachers were Jean-Claude
Zehnder (organ), Andreas Staier (harpsichord) and Jesper
Christensen(chamber music). He studied also
improvisation with Jean Pierre Legay in Paris. A
prize-winner at the J. S. Bach International Organ
Competition in Lucerne, he has made numerous concert
appearances and radio recordings as an organist,
harpsichordist and chamber musician. For two years he
was a rehearsal piano player at the theatres in Basle.
and Stuttgart. From 1994 to 1999 he was a member of
ensemble Musica Antiqua Köln and performed at the world
leading concert halls both as a soloist and continuo
player. Since the end of 1999 he has concentrated
himself on the solo repertoire, giving harpsichord,
piano and organ recitals at festivals all over the
world. Rieger has also held teaching positions at the
Salzburg Mozarteum, the Musikhochschule Hanns Eisler in
Berlin and since 2004 has taught at the Folkwang
Hochschule in Essen.
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