Florian Uhlig
With generally brisk tempos, a mixture of daring and wit, and a keen sense to balance emotion and intellect, pianist Florian Uhlig stands as a sort of cross between Vladimir Horowitz and Alfred Brendel. He has impressed concert audiences with his bold and incisive interpretations in a range of repertory, while on disc he has scored notable success in his traversal of the complete works for piano and orchestra by Schumann and Shostakovich. He possesses a technique that allows him to play the most challenging keyboard fare, from works by Liszt and Chopin to music of Prokofiev and Rachmaninov. But he has also scored great success in the works of J.S. Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Debussy, and Bernard Stevens. In addition Uhlig, himself a talented composer and arranger, often plays his own works. He has performed at major venues throughout Europe, the U.K., Asia, Africa, and the U.S. He has collaborated with some of the leading singers, including the late Hermann Prey, Franz Hawlata, Roberto Sacca, and Willard White. Uhlig has given master classes at major educational institutions across the U.K., Europe, Asia, and South Africa. He has recorded for Hänssler Classics and Champs Hill Records.
Florian Uhlig was born in Düsseldorf, Germany, on October 28, 1974. He began piano studies early on and gave his first recital at 12. He relocated to London (where he now resides) for studies with Peter Feuchtwanger, continued his education there at the Royal College of Music, and concluded it at the Royal Academy of Music.
Uhlig debuted as a soloist in 1997 at the Barbican in London with the English premiere of the Clara Schumann Piano Concerto. In 1998 his first recording appeared, a disc of Schubert lieder on the SWR/Uracant label with Hermann Prey. Uhlig received a European Cultural Prize in 1999 from the Fondation Européenne de la Culture.
Other awards followed and in 2001 his first solo recording was issued, a Black Box Classics CD entitled Venezia, a collection of pieces by 13 different composers, including Liszt, Chopin, Alkan, Fauré, and Uhlig himself. In 2003 Uhlig, active as a teacher since 1997, gave a lecture-recital at the Royal Academy of Music in London. That same year he debuted at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., with violinist Joji Hattori in a program of works by Schubert and Kreisler.
In 2004 Uhlig's acclaimed recording of the two Shostakovich piano concertos and concertino appeared on the Hänssler Classics label. A string of other successful recordings followed, including the 2005 Dutton Epoch CD of Piano Music of Bernard Stevens and a 2006 J.S. Bach disc on Champs Hill that included the Brandenburg Concerto No. 5.
Uhlig began serving as artistic director of the 2008 Johannesburg International Mozart Festival. Uhlig's busy 2010 schedule included acclaimed concerts in the U.K., Austria, Germany, Netherlands, France, South Africa, and China. Vol. 2 of Uhlig's complete solo piano music of Schumann, Der Junge Virtuose, appeared in 2011 on Hänssler Classics and generally drew high praise from critics.
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Discography
21 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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R. Schumann: Complete Works for Piano
Florian Uhlig, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern, Christoph Poppen
Classical - Released by haenssler CLASSIC on 4 Nov 2022
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Debussy - Poulenc - Ravel - Françaix : Concertos pour piano
Florian Uhlig, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern, Pablo Gonzalez
Classical - Released by SWR Classic on 28 May 2013
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Sonatas for Cello and Duplex Piano
Florian Uhlig, David Stromberg
Chamber Music - Released by Oehms Classics on 21 Apr 2023
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Piano Concertos, Vol. 2
Florian Uhlig, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern, Pablo Gonzalez
Classical - Released by SWR Classic on 10 Mar 2017
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Schumann: Complete Works for Piano, Vol. 15 – Early Works in Second Editions II
Classical - Released by haenssler CLASSIC on 20 Aug 2021
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Bach: Suite No. 2 in B Minor, Concerto in A Major, Concerto in C Minor, Concerto in D Minor, Brandenburg Concertos No. 2, 3 & 4
London Conchord Ensemble, Florian Uhlig
Classical - Released by Champs Hill Records on 16 Nov 2010
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Dichterliebe
Classical - Released by MOC Production on 11 Mar 2022
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Schumann: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 14
Classical - Released by haenssler CLASSIC on 23 Oct 2020
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Maurice Ravel : Complete Solo Piano Works
Classical - Released by SWR Classic on 5 Aug 2014
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Hummel: Septets, Opp. 74 & 114
Dieter Klöcker, Florian Uhlig, Consortium Classicum
Chamber Music - Released by Orfeo on 28 Jul 2014
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Schumann: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 7 – Schumann and the Counterpoint
Classical - Released by haenssler CLASSIC on 4 Mar 2014
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Beethoven, L. Van: Variations for Piano (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Classical - Released by haenssler CLASSIC on 1 Apr 2009
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Schumann: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 11 – Schumann & E.T.A. Hoffmann
Classical - Released by haenssler CLASSIC on 6 Jul 2018
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Schumann: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 12
Classical - Released by haenssler CLASSIC on 16 Nov 2018
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Schumann: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 10 – Schumann & the Sonata II
Classical - Released by haenssler CLASSIC on 2 Dec 2016
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Schumann: Complete Works for Piano and Orchestra
Florian Uhlig, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern, Christoph Poppen
Classical - Released by SWR Classic on 26 Oct 2010
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The Vienna Connection – Violinsonaten
David Fruhwirth, Florian Uhlig
Chamber Music - Released by EDA RECORDS on 24 Jun 2022
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Shostakovich: Piano Concertos - Concertino
Florian Uhlig, Peter Leiner, SWR Sinfonieorchester des Südwestrundfunks, Jiri Starek
Concertos - Released by SWR Classic on 1 Jan 2004
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Schumann: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 13
Classical - Released by haenssler CLASSIC on 4 Oct 2019
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Schumann and the Sonata, Vol. 1 (Robert Schumann)
Classical - Released by haenssler CLASSIC on 1 Jul 2010
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo