Peter Wittenberg

chamber music class, May 22 – 25, 2025

Peter Wittenberg comes from a family of Latvian musicians and received his first piano lessons at an early age. At the age of 16, he won the Bronislaw Kaper Prize of the Los Angeles Philharmonic with the Second Piano Concerto by Sergei Prokofiev. Since then, Peter Wittenberg has been a worldwide guest on renowned concert stages, such as the Alte Oper Frankfurt, Menuhin Festival Gstaad, New York's Carnegie Weill Hall, Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, Athenaeum Bucharest, Salzburg Mozarteum or Baden-Baden Philharmonic.

Peter Wittenberg is particularly dedicated to string chamber music and performs regularly with violinistn such as Wonhee Bae, Esmé Quartet, Ziyu He or the Altenberg Trio. He also performs with partners such as cellists Clemens Hagen, Raphaël Pidoux, Danjulo Ishizaka, Christian Poltera, Louise Hopkins, Julius Berger and Xenia Jankovic, violinistn Gottfried von der Goltz, Levon Chilingirian and Eszter Haffner, and violist Thomas Riebl.

He has been piano accompanist to soprano Ruby Hughes, mezzo-soprano Kelly O'Connor and baritone Anton Belov.

Peter Wittenberg completed his piano studies in the USA. At Indiana University he studied with the Russian pianist Lev Vlassenko, and at New York's Juilliard School of Music with Jerome Lowenthal and Vitaly Margulis. He attended master classes with Maurizio Pollini, Dmitri Bashkirov, Fou T'song and Lev Naumov, among others. He also studied orchestral conducting at the St. Petersburg Conservatory with conductors Alexander Polischuk and Ilya Musin.

Peter Wittenberg participated in chamber music master classes with Christoph Poppen, Gerhard Schulz, Heinrich Schiff, András Keller and Paul Roczek. He also received important impulses from collaborations with Clemens Hagen, Rainer Schmidt and members of the Hagen Quartet.

He is regularly engaged as a piano accompanist at well-known competitions such as the Salzburg International Mozart Competition.

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