Raymund Havenith

Raymund Havenith (17 July 1947 - 15 July 1993) was a German classical pianist.

Raymund Havenith was born in Aachen into a family of musicians receiving his first lessons from his father Josef Havenith (1919–1978), a church musician and choirmaster.

He studied the piano with Günter Ludwig at the Hochschule für Musik Köln (Cologne University of Music). Still studying he won the Mendelssohn Prize in 1970 and graduated with the Piano Concerto No. 3 by Sergei Rachmaninoff in the same year. As a scholar of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes he completed his musical education at the Conservatoire de Musique in Geneva. In 1970 Raymund Havenith participated in the "concerts by young artists" series organised by the German Music Council (Deutscher Musikrat). In 1975 he made his début in London and two years later he made his first appearance in a festival concert at the Berliner Festspiele with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Subsequent concert tours have taken him to the Near and Far East including South-Korea and Taiwan and to the principal countries of Europe. Alongside his intensive activity in chamber music he did numerous radio and disc recordings. From 1986 until his death in 1993 he has been responsible for the piano Master Class at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt.

Raymund Havenith was married since 1980 to the Korean-German pianist Jimin Oh-Havenith, appearing together as a piano duo on stage. Their daughter Martha Nari Havenith was born in 1982.

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