The versatile German pianist is comfortable and successful both as a soloist and as a collaborative artist. He has a heavy schedule at international festivals and is also a conductor and educator. Lonquich has a substantial recording catalog and has recorded for both the specialist label ECM and the mainstream EMI Classics, among other labels. On ECM he released a recording of Beethoven's complete piano concertos with the Münchener Kammerorchester in 2024.
Lonquich was born in Trier in far western Germany on August 28, 1960. While still young he studied with major pianists an...