The Piano Duo Rainer Bürck - Robert Rühle was founded in the summer
of 1990,
when composer/pianist Rainer Bürck was looking for a new piano
duo partner. Both
pianists agreed to specialize in contemporary music, and they
have given many
successful concerts in Europe and have premiered works by several
international
composers.
Rainer Bürck and Robert Rühle have performed at numerous international
venues
and festivals of contemporary music in major European cities,
including:
the Barber Festival of Contemporary Music in Birmingham/England
the Annual Festival of Electroacoustic Music at City University,
London/England
the festival Musica Verticale in Rome/Italy
the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival in Huddersfield/England
the festival Tage für live-elektronische Musik in Basel/Switzerland
the festival Aspekte in Salzburg/Austria
the Klangwerkstatt Festival in Mannheim/Germany
and concerts in Berlin, Dresden, Nürnberg, Karlsruhe, Zürich,
Edinburgh and many
further places in Europe.
In November 1992 Rainer Bürck and Robert Rühle played a concert
for the
Südwestfunk Radio, which was broadcast in March 1993.
The piano duo premiered works by Simon Emmerson (London), Miachael
Gorodecki
(London), Virginia Scott (Wales), Dan Roger (Birmingham), Laura
Bianchini
(Rome), Mesias Maiguashca (Ecuador and Baden-Baden/Germany), Wilfried
Jentzsch
(Dresden), Frank Schweizer (Karlsruhe), Franz Schillinger (Nurnberg),
Rainer
Bürck. Further composers from several countries want to write
pieces for them
(including Lawrence Casserley from England, Andrew Lewis from
Wales and Brigitte
Robindore from Paris).