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.