Herbert Schuch, instrumental soloist
With the WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln under Kristjan
Järvi, the German pianist Herbert Schuch finished with three concerts in November
2011 his year as "artist in residence" at the Philharmonie Köln. 2011/12
he will perform at the MDR Leipzig, the Bremer Philharmoniker and give recitals
in Salzburg, at the Schubertiade, the
Schwetzinger Festspiele, the Mozartfest in Würzburg, Kunstfest Weimar, in the
Liederhalle Stuttgart and in the Herkules-Saal in in Munich.
2010/11 Herbert Schuch was
"artist in residence" in Salzburg,
where he played at the Festspielhaus the piano concertos by Korngold (Brussels
Philharmonic), Schumann (Düsseldorfer Symphoniker) and Ullmann (Konzerthausorchester Berlin). That same
season he first appeared at the Bruckner Festival in Linz, and gave his recital debut at the Wiener
Konzerthaus, the Musikfest Stuttgart and the Tonhalle in Düsseldorf.
After his debut with the Danish
National Symphony under Michael Schönwandt Herbert Schuch went on a Germany
tour in spring 2010 with the MDR Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, conducted by Jun Märkl
and played at the Kissinger Sommer. While performing his at the
Prinzregentheater München, he rpesented his fourth solo CD “Sehnsuchtswalzer”
released by Oehms Classics.
In 2009 he had his debut at the
WDR Köln, Festival de Saint-Denis, Lucerne Festival and at the Herkulessaal in Munich. Had a tour in Japan with
RSO Wien under Dmitri Kitaenko and a European tour with the Orchestre National
de Lille under Jean-Claude Casadesus. In 2008 other debuts were at the Salzburger
Festspiele with the Wiener
Philharmoniker under Riccardo Muti, with the London Philharmonic Orchestra
conducted by Yannick Nezet-Seguin and at the Wiener Musikverein, conducted by
Pierre Boulez.
Herbert Schuch has played with
the Orchestre National de Lyon, London Mozart Players, Australian Youth
Orchestra, Camerata Salzburg, RSO Frankfurt, Deutsche Staatsphil-harmonie
Rheinland-Pfalz, Deutsche Radiophilharmonie, Staatskapelle Halle, Münchner
Kammerorchester, Berner Symphonieorchester, Slowakische Philharmonie and worked
with conductors such as Andrey Boreyko, Lawrence Foster, Eivind
Gullberg Jensen, Jakub Hrusa, Pietari Inkinen, Aleksandar Markovic, John Nelson, Josep Pons, Christoph
Poppen, Michel Tabachnik, Anu Tali und Lothar Zagrosek. He appeared at the Rheingau Musik Festival, Beethovenfest
Bonn, at the Konzerthaus Dortmund, Tonhalle Zürich, Parco della Musica Rom ans
at the „International Keyboard Festival“ in New York. In chamber music he has performed
with the violinists Julia Fischer, Mirijam Contzen and Alina Pogostkin, the
cellists Julius Berger and Sebastian Klinger as well as with the Szymanowski-,
Henschel- and Ysaye-Quartett.
Herbert Schuch was born in 1979
in Timisoara (Romania), the son of a family with
German and Hungarian ancestry. After early piano lessons in his home town with
Prof. Maria Bodo, the family moved to Germany in 1988, where he has lived
ever since. He continued his musical studies with Kurt Hantsch and then
continued with Prof. Karl-Heinz Kammerling at the Salzburg Mozarteum. For some
time, Herbert Schuch is also working closely with Alfred Brendel.