Kyra Steckeweh
- Director
- Producer
- Writer
The pianist Kyra Steckeweh gives concerts as a chamber music partner, song accompanist, and soloist. Her often unconventional programs are well received by the public and the press. She deals with women composers from the 18th to the early 20th centuries on various levels. Behind this stands the motivation to broaden the view on music history and to break new ground. In the meantime, a complex artistic focus has developed from this. The results are numerous concerts in Germany and abroad, the award-winning documentary "Women Composers", and recordings with piano works by Lili Boulanger, Emilie Mayer, Mel Bonis, Fanny Hensel, Sophie Westenholz, Ethel Smyth and Dora Pejacevic. Kyra Steckeweh studied piano at the Freiburg University of Music and the Mozarteum University in Salzburg, also school music and history. As part of a qualification position at the Freiburg University of Music in 2018/2019, she expanded her music-philological skills in the field of historical-critical music editing to be able to edit previously unpublished works and perform them as a pianist. In autumn 2020, together with the filmmaker Tim van Beveren, she received the OPUS KLASSIK 2020 award for the 95-minute documentary »Women Composers«. The film had previously received several international awards.