Monan von Jülich

In the artist's words:

Monan von Jülich was born in Bonn and is currently studying piano with Prof. Hinrich Alpers at the Carl Maria von Weber Academy of Music in Dresden. Performances and recitals have taken him to Paris last year, including to the Hôtel de Beauharnais at the invitation of the German ambassador. He is also a member of the "Belvedere Chamber Ensemble", which is dedicated to music by Sorbian composers and with which he tours annually.

Monan von Jülich 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 collaborated with composers such as Manos Tsangaris and David Graham on world premieres. He has been supported by the German Foundation for Musical Life 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 2023 he has been studying with Prof. Hinrich Alpers at the Carl Maria von Weber University of Music Dresden.

Monan von Jülich 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 Conservatoire. He regularly performs in benefit concerts and at music festivals such as the Beethovenfest Bonn. He has performed as a soloist with the orchestra of the Franz Liszt University of Music Weimar. Radio recordings of his concerts have been broadcast on WDR2.