Laura Konjetzky

Laura Konjetzky

The pianist and composer Laura Konjetzky was born in Munich in 1977. She studied piano at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg/Austria with Christoph Lieske and at the Berlin University of the Arts/Germany. She continued her studies with Walter Fähndrich at the Music Academy Basel/Switzerland with a concentration on Free Improvisation.

Laura recorded numerous solo pieces for the Bavarian State Broadcast Company (Prokofieff, Schulhoff, Ustwolskaja) and gave many solo and chamber music performances of classical and new music, and in improvisation.
She performed with Ensemble Resonanz, Ensemble Zeitsprung and the Munich Chamber Orchestra, as well as the Salzburg Festival, A*DEvantgarde Festival, Tanzwerkstatt Europe, European Weeks Festival in Passau, Jazz And More Festival Sibiu, Rumania and the Bavarian Academy of Arts.

Her compositional work focuses on the piano. She explores in depth new sounds at and with the grand piano. Among her most important works are the trio “shadows in a dream” (schatten im traum) for piano, violoncello and percussion and the piano solo piece “landscapes.structures.spaces” (landschaften.strukturen.räume). In addition, Laura wrote music for dance and theatre performances, as, for example, for the Bavarian State Theater, schauspielfrankfurt as well as Compagnie Anna Konjetzky.

Laura Konjetzky received several prizes and awards for her artistic work, such as the Leonhard and Ida Wolf Memorial Award for Music, granted by the City of Munich (2002), the Bavarian Prize for the Advancement of the Arts (2006) and the Music Fellowship of the regional capital Munich (2010). In 2010/11, she was a fellow at the Internationale Künstlerhaus Villa Concordia in Bamberg/Germany. From November 2011 to April 2012 Laura is a fellow at the Cite Internationale des Arts in Paris/France.