Michael Schoch

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Michael Schöch (* 1985 in Innsbruck ) is an Austrian organist and pianist. In 2011 he won the ARD music competition in the organ category.

Since 2015 he has been the head of the organ class at the Tyrolean State Conservatory in Innsbruck.

education

Michael Schöch took piano lessons from the age of five. From the age of twelve he also played the organ, initially in the parish church of his home parish in Mils . From 2001 he also received organ lessons, from 2005 with Edgar Krapp at the University of Music and Theater in Munich , which he graduated in 2009 with a diploma and the grade “very good”. For two years he attended the master class for organ, which he also successfully completed. At the same time he studied piano at the Tyrolean State Conservatory in Innsbruck with Bozidar Noev , where he passed the artistic diploma with distinction. He then studied at the Munich Conservatory with Gerhard Oppitz ; as in the organ, Schöch received his diploma in 2009 and his master class diploma in piano with distinction in 2011.

Scholarships

  • 2004 Brigitte Fassbaender Award
  • 2005 Bösendorfer piano scholarship
  • 2007 scholarship from the Austrian Lions Club
  • 2008 DAAD scholarship
  • 2009 Scholarship from the Richard Wagner Society, Munich

Awards

In addition to the many awards that the organist has received so far, the ARD International Music Competition is probably the most important one, especially because it has not been awarded in the organ category since 1971. In the five intervening competitions, none of the first prize finalists was found to be worthy of the jury. The last winner in 1971 was Edgar Krapp, Schöch's teacher.

  • 2007 1st prize at the international piano competition "Franz Schubert" in Russe , Bulgaria
  • 2008 1st prize at the international organ competition "August Everding" in Munich
  • 2010 2nd prize at the International Franz Schmidt Organ Competition in Kitzbühel
  • 2011 1st prize in the competition for the Gasteig Culture Prize in Munich
  • 2011 1st prize at the ARD International Music Competition in Munich

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ BR-Online ( Memento from January 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Klassik-heute.com
  3. ^ Munich University of Music
  4. ↑ BR-Online, Prize Winner Organ 1957–1999 ( Memento from January 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Nice, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian pianist and organist
DATE OF BIRTH 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH innsbruck