Gottlieb Wallisch
Born in Vienna, Gottlieb Wallisch first appeared on the concert platform when he was seven years old, and at the age of twelve made his debut in the Golden Hall of the Vienna Musikverein. A concert directed by Yehudi Menuhin in 1996 launched Wallisch’s international career: accompanied by the Sinfonia Varsovia, the seventeen-year-old pianist performed Beethoven’s ‘Emperor’ Concerto.
Since then Wallisch has received invitations to the world’s most prestigious concert halls and festivals including Carnegie Hall in New York, Wigmore Hall in London, Kölner Philharmonie, Tonhalle Zurich, National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing, Ruhr Piano Festival, Beethovenfest in Bonn, the Festivals of Lucerne and Salzburg, December Nights in Moscow, and the Singapore Arts Festival. Conductors with whom he has performed as a soloist include Giuseppe Sinopoli, Sir Neville Marriner, Dennis Russell Davies, Kirill Petrenko, Louis Langrée, Lawrence Foster, Christopher Hogwood, Martin Haselböck and Bruno Weil.
Orchestras he has performed with include the Wiener Philharmoniker and Wiener Symphoniker, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, hr-Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt, Festival Strings Lucerne, Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra in Budapest, Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra in Los Angeles and Stuttgarter Kammerorchester.
In 2012 he was named as a Steinway Artist, and in 2010 he became the youngest professor at the Haute école de musique de Genève; the Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK Berlin) named him professor of piano in 2016.
His discography features a vast repertoire, ranging from the complete Beethoven piano concertos on period instruments to the 20th Century Foxtrots series for Grand Piano, which presents forgotten piano music from the jazz era of the 1920s and 1930s. Re-discovering the works of ostracised composers is another field of Gottlieb Wallisch’s artistic work, documented by world première recordings of music by Jaromír Weinberger, Hans Gál, Eric Zeisl and Wilhelm Grosz.
Discography
Grand Piano has gained a reputation for producing high quality recordings of rare keyboard gems. Dedicated to the exploration of undiscovered piano repertoire, the label specialises in complete cycles of piano works by many lesser-known composers, whose output might otherwise have remained unknown and unrecorded.
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