Artists biographies
Enrique Sánchez Sánchez Lansch

Enrique Sánchez Lansch grew up first in Gijón, Northern Spain, and later in Cologne. He took a music degree, majoring in song, and an academic training in Romance studies, philosophy and German language and literature, which he completed with a master’s thesis on the film adaptations of literature. He started working as assistant producer whilst still a student, and then started work as producer and author or music films and documentaries.

After a few years as a producer of fiction series and a study visit (film/script) to Columbia University, New York, and UCLA, Los Angeles, he is now mainly involved working as producer and author of documentaries, many of which have a connection to music. Amongst them is ‘Rhythm is it!’, which was twice awarded, amongst other accolades, the German Film Prize.

His documentary ‘The Promise of Music’ on the young star conductor Gustavo Dudamel and the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra was awarded the Best Documentary Award at the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival. His latest documentaries are ‘Jetzt ist die Zeit schon um/Now the time has passed already’ on the WDR Symphonic Orchestra, ‘Lass mich ewig komponieren/Let me compose forever’ on Karlheinz Stockhausen’s cycle ‘KLANG’; and ‘Piano Encounters’, a four-year-long observation of children playing the piano in workshops with Emanuel Ax, Katia & Marielle Labèque, Gabriela Montero and the duo Tal & Groethuysen.

At present Enrique Sánchez Lansch is working on documentaries on the film-music composer Werner Richard Heymann, on Stockhausen’s ‘Sonntag’ from ‘LICHT’, as well as on the twelve cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic.