Paul Rivinius

Paul Rivinius, born in 1970, received his first piano lessons at the age of five. His teachers were initially Gustaf Grosch in Munich and later Alexander Sellier, Walter Blankenheim and Nerine Barrett at the Saarland University of Music. From the age of ten, he also learned to play the horn with Manfred Neuman, became a member of the German National Youth Orchestra in 1985 and won first prize at the national “Jugend musiziert” competition in 1987.

After leaving school, he studied horn with Marie-Luise Neunecker and piano with Raymund Havenith at the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Frankfurt before being accepted into Gerhard Oppitz's master class at the Musikhochschule München in 1994, from which he graduated with distinction in 1998.

Paul Rivinius made a name for himself as a chamber musician with the Clemente Trio, founded in 1986, which won the ARD Competition in 1998 after receiving several awards and subsequently performed as a selected “Rising Star” ensemble in the ten most important concert halls in the world, including Carnegie Hall in New York and Wigmore Hall in London.

Paul Rivinius has also been playing with his brothers Siegfried, Gustav and Benjamin in the Rivinius Piano Quartet since his childhood and has also been the pianist of the Mozart Piano Quartet since 2004, which has gained international renown through extensive travels to North and South America and Asia. In 2018, the MPQ received the “Opus Klassik” award for its recording of Georg Hendrik Witte's piano quartet on MDG Dabringhaus & Grimm.

In addition to his many years of activity in these ensembles, Paul Rivinius has played with numerous renowned artists such as Thomas Brandis, Christian Tetzlaff, Antje Weithaas, Lena Neudauer, Sharon Kam, Thorsten Johanns, Wolfgang Boettcher, Harvey Shapiro, Julian Steckel, Maximilian Hornung and was a regular guest at international festivals such as the Schleswig-Holstein Festival, “Spannungen” Heimbach, Rheingau Music Festival and Beethoven Festival Warsaw.

Numerous radio and CD productions document his artistic work, including with the internationally acclaimed Swedish soprano Camilla Tilling.

Paul Rivinius taught for many years at the UdK and most recently as Professor of Piano Chamber Music at the Hanns Eisler University of Music in Berlin and now lives in Munich.