Bernd Glemser
Bernd Glemser (born 1962, Dürbheim) is a German pianist. A student of Vitaly Margulis, in 1989 he became Germany's youngest piano professor at Saarbrücken's Musikhochschule.
Glemser has recorded major pieces by Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, Schumann, Scriabin, and Tchaikovsky as well as pieces by Liszt, Tausig, Godowsky and Busoni. He has worked with numerous orchestras, including the Philadelphia Orchestra, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, Armenian National Philharmonic Orchestra, Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra and Dortmund Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductors with whom he has collaborated include Herbert Blomstedt, Riccardo Chailly, Myung-whun Chung, Dmitri Kitayenko, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Muhai Tang, Franz Welser-Möst, Antoni Wit, Jerzy Maksymiuk, Eduard Topchjan, Mei-Ann Chen, Martin Panteleev, Alexei Kornienko, Nayden Todorov, Mateusz Molęda and Gabriel Feltz.
In 2003 Glemser was decorated with the Bundesverdienstkreuz.
His recording of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 was featured in the 2007 film Spider-Man 3.
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