Photo: Felix Broede

Not only making music sound, but also making it speak, that is HERBERT SCHUCH’S credo. With his well-thought-out solo programs and recordings at the highest artistic level, he creates a conversation between composers, podium and audience. In 2022, the artist released four new albums that underline his artistic versatility: “In Search Of”, a journey into the musical childhood of the piano//duo EnsariSchuch, a CD with clarinetist Sebastian Manz with works by Brahms, Schumann and Gade, and a Grieg album with cellist Daniel Müller-Schott. His solo CD “Soulmates” was also released, on which he brought works by Janáček and Schubert into dialogue with each other. In 2023, his recording of Erwin Schulhoff’s piano concerto, composed in 1923, and Beethoven’s 1st piano concerto were released. In the 24/25 season, Herbert Schuch will be a guest in the Great Hall of the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Bourgie Hall in Montreal, the Mozart Festival Augsburg and the Boswiler Sommer. He can be seen as a soloist with the Robert Schumann Philharmonie Chemnitz, the Erfurt Philharmonic Orchestra and the Slovenian Philharmonic.
Herbert Schuch was born in 1979 in Timisoara/Romania. 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 Prof. Karl-Heinz Kämmerling at the Salzburg Mozarteum. He attracted international attention when he won three major competitions in a row within a year: the Casagrande Competition, the London International Piano Competition and the International Beethoven Competition Vienna. Herbert Schuch shares his passion for chamber music on stage with musicians such as Nicolas Altstaedt, Julia Fischer and Maximilian Hornung. With the pianist Gülru Ensari, he also devotes himself to playing the piano four-handed and on two grand pianos. In addition to his concert activities, Herbert Schuch is involved in the organization “Rhapsody in School,” which is committed to teaching classical music in schools, and regularly gives master classes.