| Biography | Robert-Alexander Bohnke was a German pianist and teacher. He began playing the piano at age 5. First he studied with Artur Schnabel's pupil Hansi Graudan; then, after he left Germany in 1933, with Hans Erich Riebensahm, another A. Schnabel's pupil. From 1939 to 1941 he was pupil of Vladimir von Horbowski. After the exams, which he passed in 1946 at the Uhland-Gymnasium in Tübingen, he studied at the Stuttgarter Musikhochschule, piano with Vladimir von Horbowski and composition with Georg von Albrecht.
At age 20 he won 2nd Prize at the Competition of the Hessischen Rundfunks, in 1953 the Kranichsteiner Music Prize, and in 1956 the 1st Prize at the international piano competitions in Munich, Geneva and Veralli. |