Univ.-Prof. Justus Zeyen, Pianist
Ordinariate for Art Song|Oratorio|Concert
zeyen@mdw.ac.at

On October 1, Justus Zeyen will take up his professorship for Lied and Oratorio at the Institute for Voice and Music Theater. Born in Kiel, Zeyen first took piano lessons with Cord Garben before studying in Hanover with Karl Engel and Bernhard Ebert, among others. Concerts have taken the pianist and song accompanist throughout Europe, North America and Asia. He has performed with Juliane Banse, Measha Brueggergosman, Diana Damrau, Christiane Karg, Dorothea Röschmann, Florian Boesch, Siegfried Lorenz, Thomas Quasthoff, Michael Schade and Bernd Weikl, among others, as well as with the choirs of the Bavarian, Central and South German Radio. He has given recitals at the Berlin, Hamburg and Cologne Philharmonics, the Musikverein and Konzerthaus Vienna, Theater an der Wien, La Scala Milan, Wigmore Hall London, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Madrid, Paris, Moscow, New York, Toronto and Tokyo, among others, and has had invitations to the Berlin and Vienna Festwochen, the Munich Opera Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein, Edinburgh and Verbier Festivals, Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, the Salzburg Festival, Mostly Mozart New York, Tanglewood and Tokyo. Five CD releases on the Deutsche Grammophon label have received several awards including the Echo Klassik, Cannes Award, German Record Critics Award and Grammy nominations. Justus Zeyen taught until summer 2020 at the Musikhochschule Hannover and at master classes in Tanglewood, New York, Boston, London and the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg.