Mario H\u00e4ring was born in November 1989 in Hanover, Germany and grew up in Berlin. Descending from a German-Japanese family of musicians, he gained first experiences with the piano and violin at the young age of three years and in 1994 took up his first piano lessons. Even before finishing high school, he became a student of Professor Fabio Bidini at the Julius-Stern-Institute of the University of the Arts Berlin and of Prof. Karl-Heinz K\u00e4mmerling at HMTM Hanover. It was also with Prof. K\u00e4mmerling and Prof. Lars Vogt that Mario H\u00e4ring completed his studies, which he finished in 2017 with the highest grade.<\/p>\n
He gained special recognition at the 2018 Leeds International Piano Competition by winning the 2nd prize as well as the inaugural Yaltah Menuhin Award for the best chamber music performance.<\/p>\n
In the year 2003 Mario H\u00e4ring gave his orchestral debut at the Berlin Philharmonic Hall. Since then, his concert activities led him to renowned halls such as Konzerthaus Berlin, the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg, the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, the Wigmore Hall in London, the The\u00e2tre des Champs-Elys\u00e9es and the Suntory Hall in Tokyo. He was a guest at major festivals such as the Festival La Roque d\u2019Anth\u00e9ron, the Schwetzinger Festival, the Kissinger Sommer and the festival \u201cSpannungen\u201d in Heimbach. In spring 2017 he was the first \u201cIntendant in residence\u201d of the newly founded festival \u201c:alpenarte\u201d in Schwarzenberg, Austria. Concert engagements led him through Europe, Asia and the USA.<\/p>\n
His chamber music partners include Sharon Kam, Soyoung Yoon, Pablo Barrag\u00e1n, Kian Soltani and Emmanuel Tjeknavorian.<\/p>\n
He is a founding member of the Bawandi Trio (with Patrick Hollich \u2013 Clarinet and Alexandre Castro-Balbi \u2013 Cello) and the Capybara Piano Quartet (Shuichi Okada \u2013 Violin, Takehiro Konoe \u2013 Viola, Minjoung Kim \u2013 Cello) with whom he won first prize at the 2023 Osaka International Chamber Music Competition.<\/p>\n
In the past seasons, Mario H\u00e4ring has performed regularly in the major European concert halls, where he gave concerts with cellist Kian Soltani as well as with oboist Cristina G\u00f3mez Godoy and violist Sara Ferr\u00e1ndez as part of the ECHO “Rising Stars” series.<\/p>\n
His discography now includes three solo albums and five chamber music albums. For the album \u201cR\u00f8ta\u201d, he was awarded the Opus Klassik 2021 together with violinist Ragnhild Hemsing and cellist Benedict Kl\u00f6ckner.<\/p>\n
On his latest album \u201cEXTASE\u201d, released by Berlin Classics, he explores the emotions of an imaginary Berlin techno weekend through works by Debussy, Liszt, Connesson, Scriabin, Cage, Rachmaninoff and Wagner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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