Monan Jülch

In the artist's words:

Monan Jülch (20) is a German pianist from Bonn. He is also a member of the "Belvedere Chamber Ensemble", which focuses on music by Sorbian composers and with which he tours annually. This spring he gave a piano recital at the Hôtel de Beauharnais, the residence of the German ambassador in Paris.

Monan Jülch has won prizes at numerous international piano competitions. He has won 34 prizes in 38 international competitions to date. These include the Rachmaninoff Competition in Moscow, the Steinway Competition in Hamburg, the César Franck Competition in Kraainem (Belgium), the Hans-von-Bülow Competition in Meiningen, the Bechstein Competition in Berlin and the Fryderyk Chopin Competition in Szarfarnia (Poland).

He received artistic inspiration from Imre Rohmann, Peter Rösel and Michel Dalberto. He has been supported by the Stiftung Deutsche Musikleben since 2017 and has received the Carl-Heinz Illies Scholarship several times since then.

His musical education began at the age of 6 with piano lessons from Oleg Krimer in Bonn. He later moved to Prof. Juri Bogdanov at the Gnesin Academy in Moscow and then to Prof. Christian-Wilm Müller at the Schloss Belvedere Music High School in Weimar. Since October 2023 he has been studying with Prof. Hinrich Alpers at the HfM Carl Maria von Weber Dresden.

Monan Jülch has performed on major stages such as the Kölner Philharmonie, the Staatstheater Braunschweig, the Beethovenhaus and Beethovenhalle Bonn, the Mendelssohn-Haus Leipzig, the Laeiszhalle Hamburg and the Paris Conservatory. He regularly performs in benefit concerts and at music festivals such as the Beethovenfest Bonn. As a soloist, he played a piano concerto by Beethoven with the orchestra of the Franz Liszt University of Music Weimar.