Herbert Schuch

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Herbert Schuch (born September 13, 1979 in Timișoara , Socialist Republic of Romania ) is a pianist living in Cologne . In 1988 he moved to Germany with his family.

Life

education

Schuch received his first piano lessons at the age of six from Maria Bodo. In 1988 he first studied with Kurt Hantsch at the Rosenheim Music School and attended the Ignaz-Günther-Gymnasium in Rosenheim , where he graduated from high school in 1999 . At the age of twelve he was accepted into Karl-Heinz Kämmerling 's class at the Salzburg Mozarteum .

Awards

Herbert Schuch is a three-time national winner of the Jugend musiziert competition , where he also won the special award for classical music; he is the first prize winner of the 1992 International Piano Competition in Aussig on the Elbe in the Czech Republic ; he won the European Youth Music Prize . In 1994 and 1996 he won the joint classical music award of the city of Münster and the West German Broadcasting Corporation . In autumn 1996 he was awarded a scholarship from the city of Rosenheim. Two weeks later, he sat down in the European Union of Music Competitions for Youth in Ireland Dublin against competition from 22 European countries and took first place in the junior class of Siemens Nixdorf sponsored competition and won the special prize for the best interpretation of an Irish song . In 2004/2005 he won the ZF Music Prize , first prize at the Alessandro Casagrande piano competition in Terni and the London International Piano Competition , as well as the Beethoven Prize in Vienna . Also in 2005 he won the international Kissinger Piano Olympics competition . His debut CD with works by Robert Schumann and Joseph-Maurice Ravel was awarded the Editors' Choice by the English magazine Gramophone . In 2010 he received the Bavarian Art Prize .

Recordings

He played Ludwig van Beethoven's 5th Piano Concerto in the Wiener Musikverein under the direction of Pierre Boulez . In 2005 his debut CD was released with the Kreisleriana op. 16 by Robert Schumann and Miroirs by Maurice Ravel . In 2008 he published recordings of Franz Schubert's piano sonatas in G major, D 894 and A minor, D 537, as well as Helmut Lachenmann's Five Variations on a Theme by Schubert and Guero . On the 2009 CD Nachtstücke , he plays the Nachtstücke op.23 by Robert Schumann, Elis - Drei Nachtteile by Heinz Holliger , the Sonata No. 9 op.68 ( Messe noire ) by Alexander Scriabin , Gaspard de la nuit by Maurice Ravel and the Adagio in B minor KV 540 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart . In 2010 the double CD Sehnsuchtswalzer was released . The album contains Robert Schumann's Sehnsuchtswalzervariationen, Papillons op. 2, Intermezzi op. 4, Carnaval op. 9, as well as Carl Czerny's Variations op. 12, Schubert's Waltz and LÄNDER and the invitation to dance by Carl Maria von Weber .

collaboration

Schuch worked a. a. with the Symphony Orchestra of the Hessian Radio , the German Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern , the London Philharmonic Orchestra , the Camerata Salzburg , the German State Philharmonic Rhineland-Palatinate , and the Orchester National de Lyon . He is a regular guest at festivals such as the Rheingau Music Festival , the Kissinger Sommer , or the Ruhr Piano Festival . Together with the initiator of the music festival at Schloss Cappenberg , the violinist Mirijam Contzen , he performed there several times, soon from May 20 to 27, 2018.

activities

His interest in chamber music was aroused by playing the violin when he was a child. This resulted in a closer collaboration with Alfred Brendel . In addition to his concert activities, he is involved in the Rhapsody in School organization founded by Lars Vogt , which is committed to teaching classical music in schools. Between 1996 and 2006 he was a member of the Live Music Now association founded by Yehudi Menuhin .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bernhard Hartmann: Beethoven Festival 2014. The pianist Herbert Schuch is a guest in the Beethoven House. In: General-Anzeiger (Bonn) of September 22, 2014.
  2. ↑ zf.com , ZF Art Foundation
  3. ^ Beethoven piano competition to Herbert Schuch ( Memento from June 23, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Klassikinfo.de ( Memento of the original dated February 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Bavarian Art Promotion Awards 2010 in the music and dance category  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.klassikinfo.de
  5. ↑ discography herbertschuch.com
personal data
SURNAME Schuch, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian-German pianist
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Timișoara , Socialist Republic of Romania