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The Romanian-born German pianist, Herbert Schuch, received early piano lessons in his home town, Temesvar, Romania. In 1988, he emigrated with his family to Germany, where he now lives. He continued his musical studies with Kurt Hantsch and then with Professor Karl-Heinz Kämmerling at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. In the recent past Schuch has been particularly influenced by his encounters and work with Alfred Brendel. He attracted international attention when he won three important piano competitions - the Casagrande competition, the London International Piano Competition, and the International Beethoven Piano Competition in Vienna - within the space of a single year.
Herbert Schuch is recognized as one of the most interesting musicians of his generation by virtue of his sophisticated programs and recordings. In 2013 he received the ECHO Klassik for his recording of Viktor Ullmann’s Piano Concerto and L.v. Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3, together with the WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln conducted by Olari Elts. In 2012 he was already awarded with an ECHO Klassik in the category “Chamber Music Recording Of The Year” for his CD featuring quintets for piano and winds by L.v. Beethoven and W.A. Mozart.
Herbert Schuch has worked with orchestras such as the London Philharmonic Orchestra, NHK Symphony Orchestra, Camerata Salzburg, Residentie Orkest Den Haag, Bamberger Symphoniker, Dresdner Philharmonie, and the radio symphony orchestras of HR-Sinfonieorchester (Frankfurt), MDR Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, and Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra. He is a regular guest at festivals such as Kissinger Sommer, Rheingau Musik Festival, Klavier-Festival Ruhr, and Salzburger Festspiele. He collaborates with conductors Pierre Boulez, Andrey Boreyko, Douglas Boyd, Lawrence Foster, Eivind Gullberg Jensen, Jakub Hrusa, Jun Märkl, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Jonathan Nott, Markus Poschner, Michael Sanderling and Alexander Vedernikov.
In 2014 Herbert Schuch presents a series of six recital programs with works by Franz Schubert and Leoš Janáček at various venues, among others the Mozarteum Salzburg. He performs excerpts of this cycle in Cologne, Munich, Rome and Venice among other cities. In September 2013, he also released a solo CD featuring works by Schubert and Janáček.
Alongside his concert work, Herbert Schuch has been active for some time in the "Rhapsody in School" organization founded by Lars Vogt, which is committed to bringing classical music into schools. |
