Gerold Huber studied piano on scholarship at the Munich University of Music, where he worked with Friedemann Berger. He also attended Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau’s lieder course in Berlin. Together with baritone Christian Gerhaher (who had been a regular lieder partner since their student days), Gerold Huber was the 1998 recipient of the Prix International Pro Musicis in Paris/New York. In 2001, Huber also drew attention as a prize winner at the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition in Saarbrücken.
He has received many glowing reviews for his collaborative work as a song accompanist. In the words of one critic, “Gerold Huber, much in demand as a song accompanist, is a brilliant pianist and plays with great depth, expression, and an outstanding technique.” He regularly appears as a lieder accompanist at festivals such as the Schubertiade in Schwarzenberg, Salzburg Festival, Opera Festival in Munich, Schwetzingen Festival, and the Rheingau Music Festival. He also performs in the most important concert halls including the Cologne Philharmonie, Frankurt’s Alte Oper, Vienna’s Konzerthaus and Musikverein, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Wigmore Hall in London, New York’s Lincoln Center, Armory, and Carnegie Hall, the Salzburg Festspielhaus, and the concert halls in Essen, Dortmund and Baden-Baden.
Gerold Huber is much sought after as an accompanist and works with many singers of international repute, including Christiane Karg, Christina Landshamer, Ruth Ziesak, Mojca Erdmann, Michael Nagy, Maximilian Schmitt, Martin Mitterrutzner, and Franz-Josef Selig. As a chamber musician, Huber has performed with the Artemis Quartet and also works regularly with the Henschel Quartet, Reinhold Friedrich, and Matthias Hornung. In late 2016, Huber will undertake a tour of Japan and the United States with Christian Gerhaher.
As a piano soloist, Huber dedicates himself primarily to the works of Bach, Beethoven, Brahms and Schubert. In this capacity, he has performed in the Munich Residenz, France’s Théâtre municipal de Romains, the Kultursommer in Kassel, and the New Zealand Festival in Wellington.
Along with two CDs of solo piano music by Beethoven and Schumann, Gerold Huber has made many outstanding and award-winning recordings with Christian Gerhaher as a duo partner, and the excellent rapport apparent in their partnership is consistently noted. Also in Huber’s discography are recordings of Schubert with Bernarda Fink (for harmonia mundi in France), with Ruth Ziesak (Liszt on Berlin Classics, Haydn and Mahler/Zemlinsky on Capriccio, and Mendelssohn on AVI), with Maximilian Schmitt on Oehms Classics (Clara and Robert Schumann, and Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin), and with Franz-Josef Selig (lieder by Schubert, Strauss, and Wolf on AVI).
Gerold Huber is also in demand as an instructor and has given masterclasses at Yale University, the Alderburgh Festival, and the Schwetzingen Festival. Since 2013, he has held a position as professor of lied accompanying at the University of Music in Würzburg.
