In the 2006/07 season, German pianist Herbert Schuch played Beethoven concertos N° 4 and 5 with the London Philharmonic Orchestra under Yannick Nezet-Seguin as well as under Pierre Boulez at the Wiener Musikverein. He performed at the opening ceremony of the Klavier Festival Ruhr and debuted at the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, the Konzerthaus Dortmund and the Tonhalle Zurich. OehmsClassics releases his latest CD in July 2007, in the fall he debuts with the RSO Frankfurt (Anu Tali) and the Deutsche Radiophilharmonie (Olari Elts).

Herbert Schuch won widespread acclaim by winning three international competitions within one year. In June 2004 he won the Casagrande Competition in Italy, where he was also awarded the Special Jury Prize; in April 2005 he won the "London International Piano Competition", where he debuted with the London Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall in the finale. In June 2005 he won first prize at the International Beethoven Competition Vienna after performing Beethoven’s First Piano Concerto at the Große Musikvereinssaal with the RSO Vienna under Bertrand de Billy.

Herbert Schuch has already performed with numerous orchestras such as the Orchestre National de Lyon, London Mozart Players, Camerata Salzburg, Staatskapelle Halle, Münchner Kammerorchester, Deutsches Kammerorchester Berlin, Münchner Symphoniker, and collaborated with conductors such as Lawrence Foster, Christoph Poppen and Pietari Inkinen. He has played at the Kissinger Sommer, Beethovenfest Bonn, the KKL Luzern, Wiener Konzerthaus, Parco della Musica Rom as well as the “International Keyboard Festival” in New York.

In September 2005, OehmsClassics released his debut CD of Schumann and Ravel, which won critical acclaim in the “Spiegel” and was awarded Gramophone’s “Editor’s Choice” in June 2006.

His chamber music partners to date include the violinists Julia Fischer, Mirijam Contzen and Alina Pogostkin, the cellists Prof. Julius Berger and Sebastian Klinger as well as the Szymanowski, Henschel-, und Ysaye-Quartets.

Herbert Schuch was born in Temeschburg (Rumania) in 1979; his family background is German and Hungarian. After his first piano lessons with Prof. Maria Bodo, the family moved to Germany in 1988 where he has resided since. He continued his music studies under Kurt Hantsch followed by Prof. Karl-Heinz Kämmerling at the Salzburger Mozarteum. Lately he has also been working closely with Alfred Brendel for some time. His passion for Mozart, Beethoven und Schubert led to several years training in pianoforte with Prof. Siegbert Rampe.

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