About
Michael Rasche is a German classical Pianist and university teacher at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln.
As a concert pianist, he received numerous invitations to perform in large concert halls at home and abroad. He has performed with the Staatskapelle Berlin, the Orchestre National de Belgique, the Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and the BBC Symphony Orchestra London and has worked with conductors such as Sylvain Cambreling, Gerd Albrecht, Yuri Simonow, Michael Boder and Grant Llewellyn.
Rihe is currently engaged in the piano music of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, of which almost 53 piano concertos are still relatively unknown. Three of these works he presents in the latest CD recording with the Leipzig chamber orchestra conducted by Morten Schuldt-Jensen.