Jürg Hanselmann
Jürg Hanselmann (born 23 September 1960) is a Swiss-Liechtenstenian pianist, composer and music educator. He teaches piano and composition at the Sargans Cantonal School. Life. Born in Grabs, Hanselmann grew up in Schaan (Principality of Liechtenstein) and received his first piano lessons from Regina Enzenhofer at the Liechtenstein Music School in Vaduz. His first compositions date back to his early youth. At the age of 17, he was a student of Albert Schneeberger and Kristina Steinegger at the Bern Conservatory, today's University of Music and Performing Arts. There, he obtained the soloist diploma "with distinction". His  further education led him to London to the Hungarian pianist Louis Kentner and to Frankfurt to the Russian pianist Irina Lein-Edelstein. From 1983, he completed a three-year course in composition and analysis in Berne with Sándor Veress, who was a student of Zoltán Kodály and had studied piano with Béla Bartók. He also attended master classes with Mieczysław Horszowski and the Beaux Arts Trio. His pianistic concert activities have taken Hanselmann to Switzerland, Austria, Germany, France, Luxembourg, Holland, Italy and several times to the USA. In his concert activities, duo performances with his wife Sandra Hanselmann took place . The Duo Hanselmann deals with literature for piano duo. CD recordings with piano duo works by Johannes Brahms and Josef Gabriel Rheinberger have been released on the Prezioso label. Further works for two pianos have been published by Carus-Verlag and the Bernese publishing house Müller & Schade. As a Lied accompanist, Hanselmann cultivates his collaboration with the Austrian tenor Karl Jerolitsch, with whom he has released a recording of his Hesse Liederkreis with the Bernese music publisher Müller & Schade Hanselmann performed chamber music concerts in trio with Claudio Veress and David Inniger. Among others, works by Sándor Veress were performed  several times. His love of music and painting also unites him in the Segantini Trio with the cellist Katharina Weissenbacher and the clarinettist Franco Mettler. For the foundation of the trio in 2017, Hanselmann composed his second clarinet trio "Triptych". Hanselmann's compositional oeuvre is also published by Müller & Schade in Bern. In 2012, Hanselmann was awarded first prize in the composition competition of the Deutsche Oper Berlin within the chamber music series "Klang der Welt" for his work "Ricercar' for wind quintet. Among the CD recordings of Hanselmann and the Duo Hanselmann are a complete recording of the piano  works of Josef Rheinberger on 11 CDs (Carus Verlag), as well as 2 CDs with piano works by Nikolai Medtner (1993 and 1998), 1 CD with works for 2 pianos by Johannes Brahms. A collection of piano pieces on the theme "The railway in piano music" contains, among others, Rossini's "Un petit train de plaisir" and Honegger's piano arrangement of his orchestral piece "Pacific 231", a first recording in this piano version. Since March 2015 Hanselmann has been President of the International Josef Gabriel Rheinberger Society IRG, based in Vaduz.