MHH spring concert: piano playing at the highest level
320 donors and members accepted the joint invitation from the Förderstiftung MHH plus and the Gesellschaft der Freunde der MHH to this year's spring concert on April 23, 2024 and were not disappointed: concert pianist (and neuroscientist!) Johanna Doll delighted all those present with her virtuoso playing.
The students and physicians at the MHH have often proven that many of them have another great passion in addition to medicine - music. However, such a pronounced dual talent as in the case of Dr. Johanna Doll is also rare at the MHH. Born in Erdingen, she not only completed her piano studies in Munich with the highest distinction, but also successfully completed her studies in Human medicine at the MHH. Today, she works as a junior physician in neurology at the MHH - which in no way prevents her from continuing to be active as a highly sought-after concert pianist at home and abroad.
With her outstanding skills as a pianist and a natural talent as a presenter of her own concerts, Doll also captivated the guests at the MHH spring concert. After a welcome from Prof. Siegfried Piepenbrock, Chairman of the MHH Friends' Society, and Dr. Eckhard Schenke, Chairman of the MHH plus Foundation, she opened with Franz Schubert's Wanderer Fantasy D 760, followed by Maurice Ravel's Valses nobles et sentimentales. She always had introductory words about the respective composer, talked about her own relationship to their works and played passages to make the stories told by the music tangible.
In the final piece Venezia e Napoli by Franz Liszt, the 33-year-old took her audience on a musical journey through Italy, during which her playing seemed to be out of this world at times: the individual notes blurred into a magical buzz, barely perceptible as such. There was no end to the applause and Johanna Doll surprised the audience at the end with an encore and the dreamy sounds of Debussy's Claire de Lune. It was hard to describe the atmosphere in Lecture Hall F, but Dr. Eckhard Schenke managed to do so: "They always say that music has a healing effect, but I've never seen it happen so quickly: there was hardly a cough to be heard tonight. I think that says everything about Ms. Doll and her skills!"
The MHH spring concert in pictures
