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Christoph Sietzen has been praised by the media as an outstanding talent – a refreshingly natural musician noted for his technical mastery and powerful stage presence. He gave his debut at the Salzburg Festival at the age of 12 and was a prizewinner at the prestigious ARD International Music Competition in 2014. In 2018, he was awarded the ICMA (International Classical Music Awards) Young Artist Award and the European Concert Hall Organisation (ECHO) named him a Rising Star for the 2017/18 season. Furthermore, Christoph received an OPUS KLASSIK for Newcomer of the Year 2019. Christoph regularly performs at prestigious venues such as Vienna’s Konzerthaus and Musikverein, Salzburg's Great Festival Hall and Mozarteum, Romanian Atheneum in Bucharest, Philharmonie Luxembourg, London's Barbican Centre, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Berlin's Konzerthaus, Cologne's Philharmonie, Müpa Budapest, Gulbenkian Foundation Lisbon, Palau de la Música Barcelona, Stockholm Konserthuset, Bozar Brussels, Concertgebouw Amsterdam and Suntory Hall in Tokyo as well as at festivals like Salzburg or Grafenegg.

Concerts

november

4nov8:00 pmKonzerthaus Berlin (DE)CHRISTOPH SIETZEN Schlagzeug CHRISTIAN JOST Moderation8:00 pm

8novAll DayPhilharmonie Essen (DE)Sopran ANNA-LENA ELBERT Bariton HOLGER FALK Schlagzeug CHRISTOPH SIETZEN WDR SINFONIEORCHESTER Dirigent BRAD LUBMAN(All Day: friday)

9nov8:00 pmKölner Philharmonie (DE)Christoph Sietzen Schlagzeug, WDR Sinfonieorchester, Brad Lubman Dirigent8:00 pm

News

Marimba virtuoso and percussionist Christoph Sietzen as guest with the Wave Quartet at the Kölner Philharmonie

There is no shortage of works for marimba. However for musicians like drummer Christoph Sietzen who has a particular affinity...
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Tempi and time interact on Salzburg’s extraordinary musical journey in Grisey’s Le Noir de l’Étoile

The six percussionists were placed around the audience, as if in orbit around us, or at least their sounds were....
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Impressive opening weekend of the 30th Danube Festival Weeks in Strudengau

Bogdan Bacanu, Christoph Sietzen, Emiko Uchiyama and Nico Gerstmayer are marimba masters and put together a special program that had...
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Discography

"Awesome technique, unrelenting intensity, tremendous power, breath-taking speed, idiosyncratic presence and a profound musicality would be some of the superlatives needed to describe the talent of the Luxembourgish-Austrian percussionist Christoph Sietzen." - Pizzicato Magazine

Videos

Vom Schrott zum Klang - Christoph with Georg Friedrich Haas, talking about his new percussion concerto

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