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Internationally celebrated as both a soloist and conductor, Florian Krumpock has more than proven his outstanding capability in the international concert scene. Appointed as one of the youngest music directors in German history in 2011, Krump. Ck characteristically masters a broad variety of opera and concert literature as well as a wide piano repertoire, and particularly enthralls his audiences with his double role as a soloist and as a conductor. "Forget Lang Lang and Arcadi Volodos. There are highly virtuoso keyboard tigers in Austria, too", was the verdict of the daily newspaper Die Presse on the pianist's solo debut at the Vienna Konzerthaus. The son of a cellist and an art historian, Krump. Ck counted Rudolf Buchbinder, Gerhard Oppitz and Elisabeth Leonskaja among his teachers at an early age, some of the most important pianist personalities of our time. Sir Peter Ustinov presented the young musician to a wide audience early on. After an audition, no less a person than Daniel Barenboim judged him simply "a wonderful pianist" and thus paved the way for a promising international career.