Biography
Colin Pütz was born in Germany in 2007 and began playing the piano at the age of five. Since 2017, he has been enrolled as a young student at the Pre College of the Cologne University of Music and Theater and is taught by Prof. Florence Millet.
His previous training was supplemented by master classes with, among others, Pavel Gililov, Konstantin Scherbakov, Jaques Rouvier, Antti Siirala, Matthias Kirschnereit. He is a scholarship holder of the Liechtenstein Music Academy and takes part in international master classes and concerts at the academy.
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Colin has received awards at international and national competitions, including first prizes at the “Cesar Franck Competition” in Brussels, the “International Henle Piano Competition” and the “Westphalian van Bremen Piano Competition”. In 2022, he achieved the 1st prize in the national competition “Jugend musiziert” in a duo with transverse flute and received the “Ibach Special Prize”. In 2023, he was awarded the 1st prize in the national competition “Jugend musiziert” in the piano solo category.
To date, Colin has gained experience through a variety of solo performances the the Ruhr Piano Festival, the Rheingau Music Festival, the Bonn Beethoven Festival, the Festival Pro Constantia, the European Cultural Prize Gala, the Claviernacht Cologne, the Wuppertal Music Summer, the Youth Festival Toblach/South Tyrol and the Festival Academies International d'Ete Nancy.
Colin first appeared as a soloist with an orchestra at the age of ten, playing the Mozart Piano Concerto No. 12. Numerous orchestral concerts followed, including in 2020 with the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn, in which he played the Rondo in B major, WoO6, by Ludwig van Beethoven in a total of three concerts. For this he composed the cadenzas himself. In 2021, he gave a concert with the WDR Symphony Orchestra.
Colin made his orchestral debut on the international stage in 2021 with the Orchester National de France and the conductor Cristian Macelaru. In 2022, he performed with the Jena Philharmonic at the final concert of the 62nd Weimar Master Classes. In the same, year he performed with the George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra and Cristian Macelaru at the Athenaeum Bucharest. In 2023, his debut took place at the Tonhalle Düsseldorf with the Piano Concerto No.1 by Pjotr. I. Tchaikovsky and the orchestra of the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia on the occasion of its 75th anniversary.
Colin became known nationally through the role of Beethoven as a child in the ARD/ORF feature film, which was made for Beethoven's 250th birthday in 2020. He played all the pieces of music on historical instruments live on the film set.