Gottlieb Wallisch

Gottlieb Wallisch - piano

Born to a Viennese family of musicians, Gottlieb Wallisch was accepted to the Vienna University for Music and Performing Arts at the age of six, and later graduated with distinction from the class of Heinz Medjimorec. He has participated in master classes given by Oleg Maisenberg and Dmitrij Bashkirov, and studied with Pascal Devoyon in Berlin and with Jacques Rouvier in Paris. Gottlieb Wallisch is a prize winner of several international piano competitions, amongst which is the 1st Prize and the Grand Prix Ivo Pogorelich at The Stravinsky Awards (USA). He was also a finalist both at the Queen Elizabeth Competition in Brussels and at the Concours Clara Haskil in Vevey.

Gottlieb has performed with leading orchestras including the Wiener Philharmoniker, the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, the Sinfonia Varsovia, the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, the Camerata Salzburg, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, the BBC  National Orchestra of Wales, the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra and the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, under conductors including Giuseppe Sinopoli, Dennis Russell Davies, Lord Yehudi Menuhin, Louis Langrée, Sir Neville Marriner, Christopher Hogwood, Philippe Entremont, Kirill Petrenko, Lawrence Foster and Walter Weller. Numerous concert tours have taken him to the USA (Carnegie Hall, Washington D.C., Krannert Center West Palm Beach), Great Britain (Wigmore Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall), Japan, Hong Kong, South America, the Middle East, Africa, and many European countries, including Spain, Germany and Switzerland.

He has participated in the international cycle Rising Stars, and has given solo recitals in the largest European capitals (Musikverein Vienna, Konserthus Stockholm, Société Philharmonique in Brussels, the Athens Concert Hall and Wigmore Hall, London), as well as in the USA (Carnegie Hall, New York).

He has made appearances at renowned festivals and concert halls, including the Lucerne Festival, Klavierfestival Ruhr, Beethovenfest Bonn, Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, Tonhalle Zürich, Festival de Wallonie and the Singapore Arts Festival. Recent seasons have seen him performing at the Musikhalle Hamburg, the Kölner Philharmonie, ‘De Doelen' Rotterdam, the Budapest Spring Festival, the December Nights in Moscow and his China debut with the Camerata Salzburg in Beijing and Guangzhou. In the Mozart anniversary year 2006 and the Haydn anniversary year 2009 he gave a cycle of concerts in the Musikverein Vienna dedicated to the works of these composers.

A respected artist of the Viennese piano tradition, Gottlieb released his debut recording on Linn: Mozart in Vienna. In 2010 Gottlieb Wallisch was appointed professor for piano at the Geneva University of Music and named a ‘Steinway Artist' in early 2012.

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