Tobias Bigger won a junior state scholarship whilst still at school to study piano performance with Prof. Helmut Weinrebe at the Cologne University of Music. He went on to study with a number of internationally renowned teachers, being a student of Karl-Heinz Kämmerling (Hanover, Salzburg) and attending masterclasses given by Vitaly Margulis (Leningrad, Freiburg im Breisgau, Los Angeles), Detlef Kraus (Essen, Hamburg) and Bernard Ringeissen (Paris).
Tobias Bigger was a prizewinner at the International Piano Competition in Senigallia, Italy, in 1982. After practising as a lawyer, he decided to focus exclusively on his work as a pianist in 1998. He proceeded to make appearances as a soloist both in Germany and internationally, and for many years he has been active as a chamber musician and song accompanist, joining other musicians in various regular partnerships. He has a special penchant for rarely performed music, particularly virtuosic arrangements. In this field, Bigger has gained renown both in concerts and through his recordings.
Tobias Bigger’s playing continues to gain enthusiastic acclaim. Concert reviews as well as pianist portraits and CD reviews – for example in prominent publications such as KulturSPIEGEL, Piano News and International Record Review – have praised the ingenuity of Bigger’s choice of repertoire as well as his faultless virtuosity and tonal and musical sophistication.
Tobias Bigger has also demonstrated his compositional prowess in his transcriptions. He has written numerous arrangements for piano solo and violin-piano duo, and has published many of his piano arrangements through the American publisher Musica Obscura Editions, which specialized in rare piano works.
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