- Piano
- nationality
- Germany
Hendrik Bräunlich studied piano, choral conducting, lieder interpretation, and chamber music at the Leipzig Musikhochschule. He has won several prizes as best accompanist in national and international competitions. A prizewinner in the Deutscher Musikwettbewerb 1997, he was supported by a grant through the “Konzerte Junger Künstler” [Young Artists’ Concerts] of the Deutscher Musikrat. Since then, he has established an outstanding reputation as a song accompanist and chamber musician. He regularly gives concerts at leading festivals in Germany and throughout Europe, performing with musicians such as the clarinettist Nicola Jürgense, flautist Cornelia Grohmann, singers Antje Perscholka, Lothar Odinius, Henryk Böhm and Friedemann Röhlig, horn player Peter Damm, and the TIMM Quartet. Musical-literary programs have led to his working with actors such as Marina Gedeck, Friedhelm Eberle, and Elmar Gunsch. Hendrik Bräunlich has recorded lieder and chamber music for all the leading German radio stations, and MDR television. For CD he has recorded works by the composer Karl Ottomar Treibmann (*1936), chamber music for clarinet and piano, and the first recording of songs by Georg Göhler (1874–1954). Hendrik Bräunlich is regularly invited to accompany at master classes and international competitions. He has been accompanist at master classes given by Alan Kay and Jeanette Favaro-Reuter during the Leipzig Summer Courses. Since 2002 he has regularly accompanied master classes given by Christa Ludwig. Hendrik Bräunlich has taught vocal coaching and lieder interpretation at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Leipzig since 1993, and was appointed an adjunct professor in 2009. In February 2005 he taught with Jeanette Favaro-Reuter at the Royal College of Music in London.