„With the modern Bechstein grand piano, we pianists have an instrument that perfectly mirrors its history. It owns a unique, cantabile, bright sound and a rich colour palette which have always been Bechstein´s trademarks. It is absolutely amazing that this tradition can live on in a modern way in these grand pianos.“
Herbert Schuch
Herbert Schuch was born in Temeschburg (Romania) in 1979. After his first piano lessons in his home town, the family moved to Germany in 1988, where he has lived ever since. He continued his musical studies with Kurt Hantsch and then with Prof. Karl-Heinz Kämmerling at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. Recently, Herbert Schuch has been particularly influenced by his encounters and work with Alfred Brendel. It caused an international sensation when he won three major competitions in a row within a year: the Casagrande Competition, the London International Piano Competition and the Vienna International Beethoven Competition. Herbert Schuch, who played the violin himself for 10 years when he was a child, shares his passion for chamber music on stage with famous musicians such as Nicolas Altstaedt, Julia Fischer, Maximilian Hornung, Sebastian Manz and Daniel Müller-Schott. Further, he dedicates himself to playing the piano four-handed with pianist Gülru Ensari. The duo already released three CDs on the AvI label with a stylistically wide-ranging repertoire from Mozart to Bernd Alois Zimmermann. In addition to his concert activities, Herbert Schuch egularly gives masterclasses and is involved in the ‘Rhapsody in School’ organisation founded by Lars Vogt, which is committed to teaching classical music in schools.
The pianist works with orchestras such as the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the NHK Symphony Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra Taiwan, the Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre, the Residentie Orkest Den Haag, the Orchestra della RAI Torino, the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, the Munich Philharmonic, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, the Dresden Philharmonic, the radio orchestras of the hr, MDR, WDR, NDR Hannover, the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra, the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie, Danish Radio, the Orchestre National de Belgique as well as with the Camerata Salzburg and the String Festival Lucerne. He performs at important international venues such as the Kennedy Centre, the Elbphilharmonie, the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Cologne Philharmonic, the Salzburg Festival, the Festival Radio France Occitanie Montpellier, the Ruhr Piano Festival, the Rheingau Music Festival, the Kissinger Sommer, the Heidelberger Frühling and the Schumannfest Düsseldorf.
He has collaborated successfully with conductors such as Pierre Boulez, Andrey Boreyko, Douglas Boyd, Lawrence Foster, Gustavo Gimeno, Reinhard Goebel, Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla, Eivind Gullberg Jensen, Jakub Hrůša, Jun Märkl, Riccardo Minasi, Kent Nagano, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Jonathan Nott, Markus Poschner, Michael Sanderling, Jukka-Pekka Saraste and Markus Stenz.
Photo © Felix Broede (Portrait) und Gregor Willmes (Bebersee)
