Gerold Huber
Gerold Huber is a German classical pianist, best known as the regular duo partner of baritone Christian Gerhaher and accompanist of other singers.
Career
Born in Straubing, Huber studied on a scholarship at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München, piano with Friedemann Berger and Lied accompaniment with Helmut Deutsch. Together with the singer Christian Gerhaher he attended a master class with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau in Berlin.Huber forms a duo with Christian Gerhaher and has also accompanied singers such as Ruth Ziesak, Franz-Josef Selig, Bernarda Fink, Cornelia Kallisch and Diana Damrau. He is the pianist of the "Liedertafel" founded in 2002 of James Taylor, Christian Elsner, Michael Volle and Franz-Josef Selig and has appeared with the Artemis Quartet.
At the Rheingau Musik Festival 2010 he accompanied Christian Gerhaher in a Gustav Mahler program of Rückert-Lieder and from Das Lied von der Erde the movements Der Einsame im Herbst and Der Abschied.
Awards
- 2006 Gramophone Award 2006 for "Abendbilder" with Christian Gerhaher
- 2004 German Phono Prize Echo Klassik in the category "Liedeinspielung" with Christian Gerhaher for Die Schöne Müllerin by Schubert
- 2002 German Phono Prize "Echo Klassik" in the category "Liedeinspielung" with Christian Gerhaher for Winterreise by Schubert
- 2001 Internationaler Klavierwettbewerb Johann Sebastian Bach Saarbrücken
- 1998 Prix International Pro Musicis Paris/New York with Christian Gerhaher
Recordings
- Ludwig van Beethoven: Fantasie H-Dur, 6 Bagatellen, Sonate F-Dur, Russki Record München
- Johannes Brahms: Vier ernste Gesänge, Franz Schubert: Gesänge des Harfners and various Lieder, Frank Martin: Sechs Monologe aus Jedermann, Christian Gerhaher, Arte Nova, August 2002
- Joseph Haydn: Canzonetten, Ruth Ziesak, Capriccio
- Erich Kästner / Edmund Nick: Rezept zum Glücklichsein, chansons, Susanne Brantl, Russki Record München
- Erich Kästner / Edmund Nick: Das Leben ohne Zeitverlust, chansons, Susanne Brantl, Russki Record München
- Gustav Mahler: Kindertotenlieder, Christian Gerhaher, Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, Hyperion Ensemble, Arte Nova, February 2003
- Franz Schubert: Die Schöne Müllerin, Christian Gerhaher, ARTE NOVA
- Franz Schubert: Winterreise, Christian Gerhaher, ARTE NOVA
- Franz Schubert: Schwanengesang, Christian Gerhaher, ARTE NOVA
- Franz Schubert: Abendbilder, Christian Gerhaher, RCA, January 2006
- Franz Schubert: Lieder, Bernarda Fink, Harmonia Mundi
- Robert Schumann: Melancholie - Liederkreis, Op. 39, Christian Gerhaher, RCA, March 2008
- Robert Schumann: Dichterliebe und gemischte Lieder, Christian Gerhaher, RCA, October 2004Terezín|Theresienstadt, Lieder by Victor Ullmann and others, Anne Sofie von Otter, Christian Gerhaher, Deutsche Grammophon, 2007Liedertafel, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Silcher, "Liedertafel", ORFEO