Martin Helmchen

Unusually active as a chamber musician, pianist Martin Helmchen is also widely heard as a concerto soloist and recitalist. He is also a noted educator. Helmchen has often appeared with cellist Marie-Elisabeth Hecker, to whom he is married. The pair released the album From Eastern Europe on the Alpha label in 2025. Helmchen was born in West Berlin, Germany, in 1982. He took up the piano at age six and attended the Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Musikgymnasium in the former East Berlin, where he was the first West Berliner admitted. Helmchen attended the Hochschule für Musik Hanns E...