​The pianist Johannes Friedemann achieved international fame when he interpreted Beethoven's Emperor Piano Concerto No. 5 at the 50th anniversary of the Berlin Philharmonic. His playing was broadcast on television several times. 
 
Johannes Friedemann was born in West Berlin in 1980. At the age of 16, he became student of Barbara Szczepanska, who is recognized to be the best piano teacher in Germany due to her many young prize winners.  

He was also teached by the celebrated Vladimir Ashkenazy and passed his concert exam with distinction at the Zurich University of the Arts in the class of Homero Francesch. In Italy, he took another course of study in the master class of Maestro Alfredo Speranza and completed his Italian State Diploma at the Novara Academy of Music with the highest score. 

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Friedemann won first prize at the national competition "Jugend Musiziert" in Germany, followed by further awards at the international piano competition Seiler in Rhodes as well as the international music competitions Città di Cesenatico and Città di Vasto in Italy (among others). 

In 1996 he performed for the first time at the Gewandhaus Leipzig and in the same year he was honoured by the Minister President of the State of North Rein Westphalia for his outstanding musical achievements after a concert at the Tonhalle Düsseldorf. 

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As part of a television production, he played Beethoven's last great piano work, the Diabellivariations op. 120, in Europe's oldest concert hall.  The press is enthusiastic about his passionate expressiveness, his sparkling technique and his extraordinary stage presence. 

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Since his brilliant success at the Münsterland Music Festival in 2012, he has been engaged as a soloist and chamber musician in Europe and the USA and teaches as a guest professor at several music academies.