PIANO – Prof. Gottlieb Wallisch (Berlin University of the Arts)

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: Carnegie Hall New York, Wigmore Hall in London, the Cologne Philharmonie, the Tonhalle Zurich, and the NCPA in Beijing, also the Ruhr Piano Festival, the Beethovenfest in Bonn, the Festivals of Lucerne and Salzburg, the 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, and Bruno Weil.
Orchestras he has performed with include the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Festival Strings Lucerne, Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra Budapest, Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra Los Angeles, and the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra.

In 2020 his recording of the Complete Beethoven-Piano Concertos on period instruments, with Orchester Wiener Akademie under Martin Haselboeck was released to great critical acclaim and received an „Opus Klassik“-nomination.

After teaching positions at the Geneva University for Music and the Franz Liszt Music Academy in Budapest, Gottlieb Wallisch currently serves as professor for piano at the Berlin University of Arts (UdK Berlin). He held master-classes at the Universities of Illinois and Denver, the Nagoya College of Music, the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen, the St. Petersburg Conservatory and the International Summer Academy of the Mozarteum Salzburg.

Dates:

Arrival: Thursday, September 22, 2022 until 2 pm
Closing Concert: Sunday, September 25, 2022 at 5 pm
Departure: Monday, September 26, 2022 until 12 pm

Piano-works from all periods: from Baroque over Classic and Romantic to Modern Music; preparation for exams, concerts and competitions

Repertoire:

Piano solo or for four hands          

Accommodation:

Students are hosted on a shared room basis in a beautiful villa on the bank of the Rhine river.

Meals:

A kitchen is available for cooking; groceries can be bought in a nearby supermarket. Group shopping is advised. A different team can do the cooking daily, which can be organize in situ.

Rooms:

Committed to the spirit of romanticism, all masterclasses offered by the Sankt Goar International Music Festival and Academy unite everything under one roof: living, learning, eating and sleeping. That is why participants will be hosted on a shared room basis.

For further impression, please visit our venue site.

Audition information and registration:

In order to be accepted, you must meet one of the following criteria:

(a) be recommended by Prof. Wallisch, or
(b) submit an unedited video audition (YouTube link) for review.

In addition, you must complete and submit our application form and pay a €40,- application fee.

Registration Deadline: August 22, 2022

Tuition:

Course fee (incl. accommodation): €400,-