Simon Haje, piano

Simon Haje (born 2005) is a successful young German pianist with a
variety of concert appearances and first prize winner at international competitions, most recently in Enschede, Neuchatel and Aarhus. 

He has been taking piano lessons since he was six and was a young
student at the Berlin University of the Arts at the age of nine with Stefan Lietz and later with Prof. Markus Groh. He is also a pre-college student at
the "young academy Rostock", the international center for the musically gifted with Prof. Bernd Zack. He attended master classes with professors Eldar Nebolsin, Klaus Hellwig, Jacques Rouvier and Jan Jiracek von Arnim. 

He has been awarded first prizes several times in music competitions. This was the case with "Jugend Musiziert", where he received top ratings and special prizes in the categories piano solo, ensemble, accompaniment, organ and singing. At his last competitions as a piano soloist he received first prizes (2018 International Piano Podium Munich, 2019 International Schumann Competition Düsseldorf and Steinway Piano Competition, 2020 Young Ludwig Youth Music Competition, 2022 International Piano Competition Enschede/Netherlands, 2023 Concour International Piano Neuchatel
Val de Travers / Switzerland, Aarhus International Piano Competition and
Kronberg International Piano Competition / Germany). 

Simon Haje can also show successes in competitions and concerts as an ensemble musician in various formations. 

He made his orchestral debut at the age of 12 as a soloist in Bach's Harpsichord Concerto in D minor at the Schlosstheater Rheinsberg. At
the age of 13 he performed Weber's concert piece in F minor with the Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra. He made his debut in the Great Hall of
the Konzerthaus am Gendarmenmarkt in Berlin in 2020 with Beethoven's
Piano Concerto No. 3. In 2022 he was a soloist with Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 in the Neubrandenburg Concert Church and with Mendelssohn's Piano Concerto No. 1 in the Chamber Music Hall of the
Berlin Philharmonic.