Biography
Ernst Nolting-Hauff was born in Bremen, Germany. At the age of 6
he began to play the piano, at 10 he was accepted by the Music Academy
in Dortmund as a junior student, continuing later at the Music Academy
in Cologne. At the age of 14 he made his first radio broadcast, and at
16 he made his debut with the Dortmund Philharmonic Orchestra, playing
the Grieg concerto.With a grant from the German National Scholarship Foundation he has graduated from the Juilliard School in New York (Master’s Degree) and from Musikhochschule Lübeck (Concert Examination), where he has studied with Conrad Hansen, Abbey Simon and James Tocco. He has participated in master classes with Vladimir Ashkenazy, Leon Fleisher and Vitaly Margulis.
Ernst Nolting-Hauff has been awarded numerous prizes in international competitions, including in New York, Rome and Salerno.
A busy concert schedule has since led the pianist to most European countries, as well as to Asia and America. He has appeared in large concert halls in New York, Paris, Berlin, Rome, Warsaw and Seoul. He has performed as soloist with orchestras including Dortmund Philharmonic, Bremen Camerata, International Symphony Germany, Silesia Philharmonic, Seoul National Symphony and Seoul Millenium Symphony under conductors such as Moshe Atzmon, Arkady Berin, Jerzy Swoboda, Tae Cheol Noh, Dong Jin Chiang and Hee Tae Seo. He has played together with musicians such as the violist Yuri Bashmet, the solo cellist of the North German Radio Symphony Orchestra Andreas Grünkorn and the violinist Han Won Choi. He has appeared in numerous festivals and has premiered several contemporary works.
Ernst Nolting-Hauff has recorded for the German broadcasters NDR, SR, SWF, WDR, ZDF, Italian television RAI, French stations Aquitélé and Radio Liberté, Hungarian television Magyar TV, Korean TBS Radio and MTN TV, and he has made several CD recordings for the labels Musicom and Strathos.
He is professor of piano at Pyeongtaek University, South Korea.
