biografie

Gerold Huber, pianist of international standing and winner of two coveted "Echo" prizes was born in 1969 in Straubing, Bavaria.

He, won a grant to the Munich Hochschule für Musik, studying piano with Friedemann Berger and "Liedgestaltung" with Helmut Deutsch, and was a participant in Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau's masterclass in Berlin.

In 1998 he won the "Prix International Pro Musicis" in Paris.

In 2001 he was one of the prizewinners at the highly-specialised Johann Sebastian Bach International Piano Competetion in Saarbrücken.

An experienced and dedicated classical lied accompanist, Gerold Huber has made countless guest appearances at various significant festivals, notably the "Schubertiades" in Schwarzenberg (Austria) and Vilabertran (Spain), the "Rheingau Musikfestival" and the "Schleswig-Holstein Festival", as well as featuring in festivals in Cheltenham (England) and Saintes (France).

His extensive list of performance venues also includes major international concert halls such as the Cologne Philharmonic Hall, Frankfurt's Alte Oper, the Leipzig Gewandhaus, the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Konzertgebouw Amsterdam, the Wigmore Hall in London and the Frick Collection in New York.

Gerold Huber's solo performances to date have largely showcased the works of Bach, Beethoven, Schubert and Brahms, and have been presented in the Max Joseph Saal of the Munich Residence, at the "Kultursommer" in Kassel, the "Festspiele" in Schwetzingen, the "Europäische Wochen" in Passau, the "New Zealand Festival" in Wellington, in the Theatre Municipal Romains-sur-Isere in France and at the Chamber Festival in Bantry, Ireland.

He has performed Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue with the Bremer Philharmoniker under Florian Ludwig, and the complete Beethoven piano concertos, Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No. 1 and the Schumann Piano Concerto with the Ostbayerisches Kammerorchester.

His recordings of Schubert's "Winterreise" (2002) and "Die schöne Müllerin" (2004) were both awarded the hotly-contested "Echo-Klassik" prize.