Christian Gerhaher, baritone
Gerold Huber, piano

CHRISTIAN GERHAHER

Baritone Christian Gerhaher returns to North America in the 2007/2008 season for a recital tour with pianist Gerold Huber appearing at the Tuesday Evening Concert Series in Charlottesville, VA; the Vocal Arts Society in Washington, DC; Middlebury College Center for the Performing Arts in Vermont; The André Turp Musical Society in Montreal; Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall; and the Yale University School of Music where he and Mr. Huber will also conduct master classes.

Other 07/08 highlights include the title role in Monterverdi’s Orfeo with the Frankfurt Opera; a tour of the Britten War Requiem with the International Bach Akadamie and Helmuth Rilling and with the Munich Philharmonic and James Conlon; an appearance at Wigmore Hall for William Lyne’s 75th Birthday Celebration, followed later in the season by a solo recital; appearances in the Far East, including Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen with Herbert Blomstedt and the NHK Symphony in Tokyo, Nagoya and Okayama; Schubert’s Die Schöne Mullerin, Die Wintereisse and Schwanegesang in Tokyo and Nagoya.  Mr. Gerhaher also appears with Riccardo Chailly and the Gewandhaus Orchestra for Mahler’s Des Knaben Wunderhorn in Leipzig, Florence and Vienna.

His many recitals during the season will include dates in Amsterdam, Berlin, Madrid, Essen, and Brussells, among others.

Milestones of his concert career include his collaborations with Helmuth Rilling and the Bachakademie Stuttgart, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Sir Neville Marriner, Philippe Herreweghe, Heinz Holliger and Trevor Pinnock, and early career debuts with the Vienna and Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestras.  Recent highlights include the Brahms Requiem led by Kent Nagano with the Chicago Symphony for his debut and with the Munich Philharmonic and Christian Thielemann, Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with Nikolaus Harnoncourt at the Musikverein, the Britten War Requiem with the Vienna Philharmonic.  He has appeared at the Bayerischer Rundfunk Orchestra in Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana under Riccardo Muti, with whom he repeated this piece at the Vienna Philharmonic.  He also performed and recorded this work with the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Sir Simon Rattle, which was released on EMI.  With the Berlin Philharmonic he has also performed the Britten War Requiem under Donald Runnicles, which was repeated at the Edinburgh Festival, and he made his debut with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra under Nikolaus Harnoncourt with Dvorak’s Biblical Songs.

Under exclusive contract with RCA Red Seal, Mr. Gerhaher’s latest disc, Abendbilder, songs of Franz Schubert with Gerold Huber, was named the best solo vocal recording of 2006 by Gramophone Magazine.

GEROLD HUBER

As a scholarship holder, German pianist Gerold Huber studied piano with Friedemann Berger and lied interpretation with Helmut Deutsch at the Musikhochschule in Munich and attended Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau’s lied classes in Berlin. 1998 he was awarded the Prix International Pro Musicis in Paris/New York together with baritone Christian Gerhaher that was followed by concerts in Paris and the Carnegie Hall in New York. He was a prize winner of the International Johann-Sebastian-Bach-Wettbewerb Saarbrücken in 2001.

"His sensitive interludes make you want to kneel down. The pianist uncovers the subtle network of a comedy of errors and completes the picture. Gerold Huber manages to penetrate into the deep layers of the soul." This is the press's enthusiastic judgement of Gerold Huber's way of accompanying. In the role of lied pianist, he already appeared at such renowned festivals as Schubertiade Schwarzenberg and Schubertiade Vilabertran (Spain), the Schwetzinger Festspiele and the Rheingau Musik Festival. Moreover, he founded his own festival “Ernste Musik” which took place for the first time in Munich’s Nymphenburg Castle in 2006.

Gerold Huber performed at major concert halls like Philharmonie Cologne, De Singel in Antwerp, Wigmore Hall in London, Frick Collection New York and Musée d'Orsay in Paris. Besides his regular appearances with Christian Gerhaher, Gerold Huber also performs with Ruth Ziesak, Cornelia Kallisch, Diana Damrau and Franz Josef Selig. Furthermore he is the pianist of the vocal ensemble Liedertafel, consisting of James Taylor, Christian Elsner, Michael Volle and Franz-Josef Selig, and he also performed with the Artemis Quartet.

His solo activities and recordings often center around the compositions of Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert. He has performed in Munich, Regensburg and at the Théâtre Municipal de Romains in France, at the Festival Kultursommer Kassel and at the New Zealand Festival in Wellington.

Gerold Huber is a regular guest of broadcasting companies for live and studio recordings. For Arte Nova, Christian Gerhaher and Gerold Huber have recorded all Schubert cycles. Other CDs with songs of Brahms and Martin have been released. For the label RCA Red Seal the duo recently published a CD with Schubert songs titled Abendbilder, which was honored with the Gramophone Award for Best Solo Vocal Recording 2006.