Biography
Wilhelmine Freytag was born in Germany in 2007. Since 2012, she has been taking piano lessons from Kathrin Fritze at the music school Johann Sebastian Bach in Leipzig. From 2016, she was a student in the gifted class of the Free State of Saxony and from 2017 a student in the Thomaner class at the Thomasgymnasium Leipzig. From 2018, she was a young student with Prof. Grigory Gruzman at the Franz Liszt Music Academy in Weimar and has been a young student with Prof. Kirill Gerstein at the Hanns Eisler Music Academy in Berlin since 2022.
Wilhelmine has been taking part in master classes since 2019, including with Nikolai Demidenko, Paul Rivinius and Vladimir Kharin. She is also a scholarship holder of the International Academy of Music in Liechtenstein and takes part in the intensive weeks and activities of the academy.
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Wilhelmine is an award winner at numerous national and international competitions. Since 2015, she has won several 1stprizes at the "Jugend musiziert" competition at regional and national level in the categories solo, four-handed piano and in a duo with a string instrument. She has won several 1st and 2nd prizes at the "Carl Bechstein Competition for children and young people” since 2016 in the categories piano solo and piano duo. Other prizes are the "Mendelssohn Youth Prize for Piano and Chamber Music" (2016), the prize at the "Carl Schroeder Competition in Sondershausen" (2020) and the "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Prize for Young Talent" (2021). She won further prizes in 2018 at the "Kocian Competition" in Usti nad Orlici in the form of a special prize for piano accompaniment, 1st prizes at the "Carl Schroeder Competition Sondershausen" 2020 (online) in the solo piano category and in the accompaniment category in 2021. In 2021, she also received a special prize from the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben, a special prize from the Sütterlin siblings, the “Central German Youth Music Prize from the Holger Koppe Foundation” together with her siblings Helene and Albrecht, as well as the 3rd prize and the special prize for the best interpretation of the commissioned work at the “International Robert Schumann Competition Düsseldorf”.
Wilhelmine has held a scholarship from the Carl Bechstein Foundation since 2020 and a scholarship from the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben since June 2021.