29/07/2026
💥 Discover our artists 💥 Endri Nini, co-artistic director. Endri Nini, a widely acclaimed artist both as a soloist and chamber musician, has won many awards in competitions such as the international piano competition of Ile de-France in Paris, the Premio Trio di Trieste, and the Kiejstut Bacewicz International Chamber Music Competition in Łódź. Born in Albania, Nini studied with Anita Tartari, Sontraud Speidel, Kevin Kenner, and Bernd Goetzke. In addition, he received important musical inspiration from Stephen Kovacevich, Aldo Ciccolini, and András Schiff. He went on to complete his chamber music training in Hanover with Markus Becker and Oliver Wille.
As a chamber musician, he has performed with leading musicians such as Albrecht Mayer, Sharon Kam, Sabine Meyer, Daniel Rowland, Gustav Rivinius, Elsbeth Moser, Wolfgang Güttler, the Berlin-Tokyo Quartet and the Eliot Quartett. From 2012 to 2018, Nini was a founding member of the Flex Ensemble, with which he won several awards in prestigious international chamber music competitions, such as the first prize at the international Robert Schumann chamber music competition in Frankfurt and the first prize at the Gianni Bergamo Classic Music Award in Lugano. In addition to four CD albums “The Arrival of Night” and “Au Suivant!” with the Flex Ensemble, “Momentum” with cellist Antoaneta Emanuilova and “Traum und Trauma” with violinist Friederike Starkloff, he has also released broadcast recordings for SWR, NDR, and Radio 4 Amsterdam.
As a soloist he has performed with the Baden-Baden Philharmonic Orchestra, Albanian Radio Television Symphony Orchestra, Karlsruhe Chamber Orchestra, and Tirana Chamber Orchestra. He has also appeared in numerous concert halls such as the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Alte Oper Frankfurt, National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing, and Meistersingerhalle Nuremberg as well as at the Sommerliche Musiktage Hitzacker, Heidelberger Frühling, Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Annecy Festival, Prussia Cove, Goslar International Music Festival, and PODIUM Festival Esslingen. He is a lecturer of chamber music at the University of Music and Drama in Rostock. 📸 Zuzanna Specjal