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Markus Becker’s concert tours take him to most important international venues, including Alice Tully Hall in New York, St John’s, Smith Square, in London, Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris, and many others. His regular festival appearances include those at Salzburg, Berlin, Montpellier, Klavierfestival Ruhr, Kissinger Sommer, Schleswig-Holstein, and Beethovenfeste Bonn, and he has performed with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the radio orchestras of several German broadcasting stations, and other leading orchestras throughout Europe. Markus Becker’s chamber-music partners include Alban Gerhardt, Kolja Blacher, Stefan Dohr, Viviane Hagner, Latica Honda-Rosenberg, Albrecht Mayer, Alyssa Park, Ludwig Quandt and Majella Stockhausen.
Following his acclaimed debut CD with the F sharp minor sonatas of Brahms and Schumann, and further recordings for Harmonia Mundi and EMI, Markus Becker recorded the first complete edition of Max Reger’s piano works. This series of twelve CDs has been awarded the ‘Deutscher Schallplattenpreis’ and the ‘ECHO-KLASSIK-Prize 2000’ for the best solo recording of music from the nineteenth century.
