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Till Fellner was born in Vienna, where he studied with Helene Sedo-Stadler. Further studies led him to Alfred Brendel, Meira Farkas, Oleg Maisenberg, and Claus-Christian Schuster. His international career began in 1993 when he won first prize at the Concours Clara Haskil in Vevey (Switzerland). Since then, Till Fellner has been a sought-after guest with renowned orchestras, in major music centers in Europe, the USA, and Japan, as well as at many important festivals. Conductors with whom he has collaborated include Claudio Abbado, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Christoph von Dohnányi, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Heinz Holliger, Marek Janowski, Sir Charles Mackerras, Sir Neville Marriner, Kurt Masur, and many others. Till Fellner regularly performs in a trio with Lisa Batiashvili and Adrian Brendel; he also has an intensive collaboration with tenor Mark Padmore.
Since October 2008, Till Fellner has been performing all of Beethoven's piano sonatas in a cycle planned for seven concerts; the entire series will be heard in New York, Washington, Tokyo, London, Paris, and Vienna, among other cities. Till Fellner's Bach recordings on ECM New Series have received the highest critical acclaim. "While Bach may have conceived his Inventions and Sinfonias as teaching pieces, Till Fellner’s intelligent and characterful pianism consistently embraces the music behind the method book. Varied articulations and well conceived scaling of dynamics imbue the pianist’s natural propensity for generating singing lines with shapely expression. … The Inventions and Sinfonias in Fellner’s hands rank alongside the catalogue’s strongest piano versions.”