Marie-Luise Bodendorff
Background
Marie-Luise Bodendorff was born in Augsburg (Germany) in 1983. She had her first piano lessons at the age of five and due to her exceptional talent she was admitted to the Hochschule für Musik in Karlsruhe at the age of 10. She later became a full-time student of Prof. Olga Rissin-Morenova. Aged six, Marie-Luise Bodendorff started giving concerts.
Her first public appearance was with The South-West Chamber Orchestra Pforzheim in 1989. Other events include performing with Kurpfälzisches Kammerorchester Mannheim, New Philharmonic Westphalia, Folkwang Kammerorchester Essen, The Bacau Philharmonic and The Kharkov Philharmonic and Preußisches Kammerorchester and Orchestra Classica di Alessandria. She has played numerous solo and chamber music recitals in Poland, Serbia, France, Sweden, Norway, Germany, Denmark, Italy and China. She also made recordings for ARD and Bayrischen Rundfunk in Germany and P2 in Denmark.
Artistic practice
2002 until 2007, Marie-Luise Bodendorff studied with Russian piano authority Vladimir Krainev at the Hannover University of Music, Drama and Media. The ERASMUS exchange programme enabled her to study at Paris Conservatoire, where she took lessons with the famous French pianist Brigitte Engerer in 2008. From 2007 to 2013, Marie-Luise Bodendorff attended Postgraduate Studies with Prof. Christopher Oakden in Hannover and finished these successfully.
The soloist class at Royal Danish Academy of Music (RDAM) with Prof. Niklas Sivelöv, proved to be an important milestone on her artistic journey. In June 2014, Marie-Luise Bodendorff received her soloist diploma and gave her debut recital in Tivoli Concert Hall. She had already given a virtuoso solo recital in 2013 and performed Rachmaninoff´s Third Piano Concerto at the same venue one year earlier with the RDAM Orchestra. In 2013, Marie-Luise Bodendorff was invited to play for the Danish Royal Family at Chateau de Caix.
In 2021 Marie-Luise Bodendorff's CD with works by F. Kuhlau (Dacapo Records) was chosen by the Danish newspaper Politiken as one of the best 20 recordings of 2021. In 2022 Vol. 2 by F. Kuhlau (DaCapo Records) was published and got many great reviews.
Teaching
Marie-Luise Bodendorff is since 2016 a part time teacher in piano and chamber music at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen.
Marie-Luise's portfolio of international piano competition prizes and other awards include:
- Competition for young pianists, Rome, Italy, 1992 Lions International Youth Competition, 1993
- Culture Prize from ” Baden-Württemberg”, 1998
- Bundeswettbewerb “Jugend musiziert”, 1999
- Finalist at 1. Grieg International Piano Competition, 2000
- Puigcerda Competition, Spain, 2001 International Piano Competition ” Stiftung Karic ”, 2001
- GEDOK Competition, Detmold, 2002 International Seiler Competition, 2005
- International Piano Competiton, Rhodos, Greece, 2006
- Scholarship from the “Deutscher Musikwettbewerb”, 2011
- The Van Hauen Prize, 2013
- Second Prize at the XI Concorso Pianistico Internazionale “Lia Tortora”, Italy 2015
- First Prize “Assoluto” at the Concorso Internationale “Musica Insieme”, Italy 2017
- Second Prize at the Concorso Internationale “Premio Vittoria Caffa Righetti”, Italy 2017
- Fourth Prize at the International ClaMo Piano Competition, Spain 2018
- First Prize at the International Feurich Music Competítion, Vienna/Austria 2018
- First Prize at the International Piano Competition in Ischia/Italy 2018
- Two first Prizes at the 30th International Piano Competition Città di Moncalieri 2018
- Rosy Tondato Award 2018
- Grand Prix at 3rd Future Stars International Piano Competition and two Special Prizes for best Rachmaninov and best Liszt Performance in 2018
- 3rd prize at Concours Musical de France, Paris 2019
- 2nd prize at 5th Paderewski International Piano Competition (Special Online Edition)
- 2020 1. Prize at V. Krystian Tkaczewski International Piano Competition (Online Edition) 2020
- 1.Prize at Albenga International Piano Competition 2021