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Axel Bauni has been a Professor of the Contemporary “Lied” at the Berlin University of the Arts since 2007. The well-known pianist studied at the Mannheim/Heidelberg University of Music as well as with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Aribert Reimann at the Berlin University of the Arts. He is the interpreter and initiator of numerous first performances of “Lieder” by Hans Werner Henze, Matthias Pintscher and Wolfgang Rihm, among others. Together with Reimann, he is both the publisher of and pianist for the series of CDs of contemporary “Lied” on the ORFEO label. He works as the accompanist for singers of “Lieder” such as Christine Schäfer, Dietrich Henschel and Thomas Quasthoff.