In 2010/11 German pianist Herbert Schuch will be „artist in residence“ in Salzburg, where he will perform at the Festspielhaus the piano concertos by Korngold with the Brussels Philharmonic under Michel Tabachnik, Schumann with the Düsseldorf Symphony under Andrey Boreyko and Ullmann with the Konzerthausorchester Berlin under Lothar Zagrosek. In the same season he will give his Recital-debuts at the Wiener Konzerthaus, Musikfest Stuttgart, Tonhalle Düsseldorf and Philharmonie Köln.

After his debut with the Danish National Symphony under Michael Schönwandt Herbert Schuch plays in spring 2010 with the Slovak Philharmonic conducted by Aleksandar Markovic and the Bern Symphony under Josep Pons, undertakes a Germany-tour with the Radio Symphony Orchestra Leipzig under Jun Märkl and performs at the Kissinger Sommer, Klavierfestival Ruhr and the Brucknerfest Linz. In 2009 Herbert Schuch debuted with the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne, at the Festival de Saint-Denis and with Recitals at the Lucerne Festival and the Herkulessaal München. He toured Japan with the Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna under Dmitri Kitaenko, Central Europe with the Orchestre National de Lille unter Jean-Claude Casadesus, and he published his by now third solo-CD Nachtstücke, which was again highly acclaimed by the press.

In 2008 Herbert Schuch debuted at Salzburg Festival with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Riccardo Muti, with the London Philharmonic Orchestra under Yannick Nezet-Seguin and in the Wiener Musikverein under Pierre Boulez. Furthermore, he has performed with the Orchestre National de Lyon, London Mozart Players, Australian Youth Orchestra, Camerata Salzburg, Radio Symphony Orchestra Frankfurt Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, Deutsche Radiophilharmonie, Staatskapelle Halle, Münchner Kammerorchester, Deutsches Kammerorchester Berlin and Münchner Symphoniker. He worked with conductors such as Lawrence Foster, Eivind Gullberg Jensen, Jakub Hrusa, Pietari Inkinen, John Nelson, Christoph Poppen and Anu Tali, and appeared at the Rheingau Music Festival, Beethoven Fest Bonn, Konzerthaus Dortmund, Tonhalle Zurich, Wiener Konzerthaus, Parco della Musica Roma as well as 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 Temesvar (Romania) to a family with German and Hungarian roots. After first piano lessons in his home town with Prof. Maria Bodo the family moved to Germany in 1988, where he has lived since then. He continued his musical studies with Kurt Hantsch and later with Karl-Heinz Kämmerling at the Mozarteum Salzburg. For some time, Herbert Schuch has also worked intensively with Alfred Brendel. He caused an international sensation when he won three important competitions in 2004/05; the Casagrande Competition, the London Inter-national Piano Competition, and the Vienna International Beethoven Competition.

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