Bernd Glemser (born 1962, Dürbheim) is a German pianist. A student of Vitaly Margulis, in 1989 he became Germany's youngest piano professor at Saarbrücken's Musikhochschule.
Glemser has recorded major pieces by Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, Schumann, Scriabin, and Tchaikovsky as well as pieces by Liszt, Tausig, Godowsky and Busoni. He has worked with numerous orchestras, including the Philadelphia Orchestra, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, Armenian National Philharmonic Orchestra, Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra and Dortmund Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductors with whom he has collaborated include Herbert Blomstedt, Riccardo Chailly, Myung-whun Chung, Dmitri Kitayenko, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Muhai Tang, Franz Welser-Möst, Antoni Wit, Jerzy Maksymiuk, Eduard Topchjan, Mei-Ann Chen, Martin Panteleev, Alexei Kornienko, Nayden Todorov, Mateusz Molęda and Gabriel Feltz.
In 2003 Glemser was decorated with the Bundesverdienstkreuz.
His recording of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 was featured in the 2007 film Spider-Man 3.
+ Record of piano prizes, incomplete Year Competition Prize 1st prize winner / Ex-aequo with... 1983 María Canals, Barcelona 2nd prize 1st prize void / Kyoko Koyama 1984 Ferruccio Busoni, Bolzano 3rd prize Louis Lortie 1984 Mario Zanfi, Parma 1st prize 1985 Sydney International Piano Competition 2nd prize Du Ning-Wu 1986 Rina Sala Gallo, Monza 1st prize 1987 ARD, Munich 2nd prize 1st prize void / Ricardo Castro. 1987 Paloma O'Shea Santander International Piano Competition, Santander 3rd prize 1988 Concours de Montreal 2nd prize Angela Cheng 1992 Andor Földes Prize 1st prize 1993 European Pianists Prize 1st prize
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