Gerold Huber

Gerold Huber (born 1969) 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 , 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 (Seven Songs of Latter Days) and from the movements (The Lonely One in Autumn) and (The Farewell).

Awards

2006 Gramophone Award 2006 for "" with Christian Gerhaher 2004 German Phono Prize Echo Klassik in the category "" with Christian Gerhaher for by Schubert 2002 German Phono Prize "Echo Klassik" in the category "" with Christian Gerhaher for by Schubert 2001 1998 Prix International Pro Musicis Paris/New York with Christian Gerhaher

Recordings

Ludwig van Beethoven: , Russki Record München Johannes Brahms: , Franz Schubert: and various , Frank Martin: , Christian Gerhaher, Arte Nova, August 2002 Joseph Haydn: , Ruth Ziesak, Capriccio Erich Kästner / Edmund Nick: , chansons, Susanne Brantl, Russki Record München Erich Kästner / Edmund Nick: , chansons, Susanne Brantl, Russki Record München Gustav Mahler: , Christian Gerhaher, , Hyperion Ensemble, Arte Nova, February 2003 Franz Schubert: , Christian Gerhaher, ARTE NOVA Franz Schubert: , Christian Gerhaher, ARTE NOVA Franz Schubert: , Christian Gerhaher, ARTE NOVA Franz Schubert: (various Lieder), Christian Gerhaher, RCA, January 2006 Franz Schubert: , Bernarda Fink, Harmonia Mundi Robert Schumann: , Christian Gerhaher, RCA, March 2008 Robert Schumann: , Christian Gerhaher, RCA, October 2004 Terezín|Theresienstadt, Lieder by Victor Ullmann and others, Anne Sofie von Otter, Christian Gerhaher, Deutsche Grammophon, 2007 , Schubert, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Silcher, "Liedertafel", ORFEO