Claudius Tanski was born in Essen/Germany in 1959. He studied in Essen, Salzburg, Vienna and London, where Alfred Brendel was his most important teacher for several years.

Tanski won a lot of prizes and distinctions at international competitions and played as a soloist as well as a chamber-musician at important festivals. He played throughout Europe and also in USA, South America, Japan, South-East Asia and India.

Tanski recorded some 20 CD`s for the German label MDG (www.mdg.de). His recordings were honoured with a lot of international prizes, among them "CD of the year" for US-magazine "Fanfare", "Editor's Choice" of "Gramophone", five times the "Prize of German Record Critics" and an "Echo-Klassik-Prize" 1997 in the division Chamber music.

Claudius Tanski is Professor at the University Mozarteum in Salzburg.

Jury-Member Seregno (Pozzoli Competition) 2001 and 2007, Pinerolo 2008, Taranto 2009, Genova 2010, Masserosa 2016 and 2018.

• Beethoven Projekt Henle Edition Munich - 2020 Master Students of Prof. Tanski
• Liszt: Benediction de Dieu Tutorial 1
• Liszt: Benediction de Dieu Tutorial 2
• CD-Reviews / Distributors
• Youtube Channel
• Record company MDG
• Recital Harvard Music Association April 2019
• Lecture at New England Conservatory Boston, April 2019
• Big Birthday of Busoni (150th), Open Air concert at the grave of Busoni in Berlin 2016
• Franz Liszt: "Hexameron" (Spring 2012)
• Armut, Keuschheit und Gehorsam
• Uploads of Claudius Tanski Music on channels of other YouTubers
• Seder, Pessach at the house of HMA Director Lee Eiseman, Boston, April 2019