Christian Laier
Lecturer for mandolin (elective module) and guitar ensemble
Bachhaus Belvedere
- 1982 born in Nordhausen
- Mandolin studies with Gertrud Weyhofen in Kassel, artistic maturity examination with Steffen Trekel in Hamburg
- Guitar studies with Michael Tröster in Kassel
- Concerts in various chamber music formations and as a soloist have taken him throughout Europe, to the USA, Japan and Brazil
- Performances of solo concerts with the Jena Philharmonic Orchestra, the Leipzig Symphony Orchestra, the Minsk Plucked String Orchestra and various national plucked string orchestras
- participation in symphony orchestras, including the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Weimar Staatskapelle and the orchestra of the Kassel State Theater
- Laureate of national and international competitions:
- 1998 - 2nd prize at the Albin Dotzauer competition for mandolin solo in Schweinfurt.
- 2000 - 1st prize at the Roland Zimmer Youth Competition for mandolin solo in Glauchau
- 2000 - 1st prize at the national competition "Jugend musiziert" in Berlin
- 2002 - 1st prize at the Roland Zimmer Youth Competition for mandolin solo in Glauchau
- 2007 - 3rd prize at the "International Mandolin and Guitar Competition Vissani" (Greece)
- 2010 - 2nd prize at the "International Gerhard Vogt Chamber Music Competition" in Hammelburg (in the Duo Consensus)
- Participation in master classes, e.g. with Marga Wilden-Hüsgen, Caterina Lichtenberg, Ariane Zernecke-Lorch, Albert Aigner, Dieter Kreidler, Thomas Müller-Pering, Carlo Marchione, Hubert Buchberger and Winfried Michel
- Lectureship at the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar
- Pedagogical activity at the music school of the city of Erfurt
- Lecturer at seminars of the Bund deutscher Zupfmusiker (Association of German Plucked String Musicians)
- 2007-2016 Conductor of the State Youth Plucked String Orchestra Brandenburg - Berlin
- Publication of the diploma thesis "Between Late Baroque and Viennese Classicism: Ornamentation Practice in the Middle of the 18th Century (on the Mandolin Works of Gabriele Leone)" - available at Haus der Musik Trekel - www.trekel.de