Gerold Huber
Pianist Gerold Huber is best known for his work as an accompanist. He is particularly identified with the baritone Christian Gerhaher, with whom he has been teamed since the pair were students.
Huber was born in Straubing, in Bavaria, in 1969. He attended the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich, studying piano and vocal accompaniment. In his coursework for the latter, he attended a master class with the great baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. Another member of the class was Gerhaher, and from that meeting stemmed a long collaboration. Huber has also accompanied various other top-flight singers, including mezzo-soprano Bernarda Fink, soprano Diana Damrau, and soprano Ruth Ziesak. He is also a member of a multi-artist song-performance group called Liedertafel, and he has played chamber music with the Artemis Quartet. As a solo pianist, he has given recitals in Munich and Regensburg and abroad in France and New Zealand. Huber also accompanies a variety of singers at German festivals, including the Rheingau Music Festival, the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, and the Schwetzingen Festival. In the U.S., he has appeared as an accompanist at Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall in New York.
Huber has won several major awards, not only in collaboration with Gerhaher (the pair won an Echo Klassik Award in 2002 for their recording of Schubert's Die Winterreise, D. 911, and a Gramophone Award in the U.K. in 2006 for their album Abendbilder) but also as a solo player; he was a prizewinner at the Internationaler Klavierwettbewerb Johann Sebastian Bach Saarbrücken in 2001. Huber's discography, mostly with Gerhaher and other singers, is large. In 2017, he and Gerhaher released a recording of the rare Brahms spoken-musical work Die schöne Magelone; the pair also toured with the work to Munich, Heidelberg, and London. In 2019, he backed Constance Heller in an album of songs by composer Hans Sommer. He has continued to record chamber music, backing the Henschel Quartet that year in a recording of works by Schubert and Mendelssohn. Huber remained active during the COVID-19 pandemic, accompanying baritone Raoul Steffani and mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožená on the 2021 album Robert & Clara Schumann: Love's Spring on the Challenge Classics label. In 2022, he backed soprano Christiane Karg on an album of works by Debussy and Reynaldo Hahn on the BR Klassik label; he moved to Sony Classical in 2023, joining Gerhaher and tenor Piotr Beczała on a recording of Mahler's rarely-heard voice-and-piano version of Das Lied von der Erde.
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Discography
21 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Heimweh: Schubert Lieder
Anna Lucia Richter, Gerold Huber, Matthias Schorn
Classical - Released by PENTATONE on 1 Feb 2019
Gramophone Editor's Choice24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Schubert: Winterreise
Gunther Groissbock, Gerold Huber
Classical - Released by Universal Music GmbH on 24 Feb 2017
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Herz-Tod
Gunther Groissbock, Gerold Huber
Classical - Released by Universal Music GmbH on 25 May 2018
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Schubert: Schwanengesang
Gunther Groissbock, Gerold Huber
Classical - Released by Universal Music GmbH on 24 Feb 2017
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Licht der Welt (A Christmas Promenade)
Classical - Released by harmonia mundi on 19 Nov 2021
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Schubert: Piano Quintet in A Major "Trout" - Mendelssohn: String Octet in E-Flat Major
Henschel Quartet, Gerold Huber, Diogenes Quartet, Alexandra Hengstebeck
Chamber Music - Released by Solo Musica on 25 Oct 2019
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Gedankenverloren
Katharina Konradi, Gerold Huber, Andreas Lipp
Classical - Released by Genuin on 2 Mar 2018
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Love's Spring
Gerold Huber, Raoul Steffani, Magdalena Kožená
Classical - Released by Challenge Classics on 5 Nov 2021
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Nick: Fahrt in die Welt - Erich Kästner in Liedern und Chansons von Edmund Nick
Constance Heller, Gerold Huber
Classical - Released by SPEKTRAL on 1 Jan 2016
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
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Schumann & Ullmann: Vocal Works
Christina Landshamer, Gerold Huber
Classical - Released by Oehms Classics on 10 Jun 2016
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Die schöne Müllerin
Maximilian Schmitt, Gerold Huber
Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) - Released by Oehms Classics on 22 Jul 2013
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Herz-Tod
Gunther Groissbock, Gerold Huber
Classical - Released by Universal Music GmbH on 25 May 2018
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Mignons Sehnen
Constance Heller, Gerold Huber
Classical - Released by Solo Musica on 13 Apr 2018
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Schubert: Schwanengesang
Gunther Groissbock, Gerold Huber
Classical - Released by Universal Music GmbH on 24 Feb 2017
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Schubert & Strauss & Wolff: Prometheus Lieder
Franz-Josef Selig, Gerold Huber
Classical - Released by Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin on 28 Jul 2014
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Heimweh: Schubert Lieder
Anna Lucia Richter, Matthias Schorn, Gerold Huber
Art Songs, Mélodies & Lieder - Released by PENTATONE on 1 Feb 2019
Gramophone Editor's Choice24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Canzonetten
Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) - Released by CapriccioNR on 1 Aug 2009
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Traumend wandle ich bei Tag
Maximilian Schmidt, Gerold Huber
Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) - Released by Oehms Classics on 1 Feb 2011
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Ruth Ziesak, soprano
Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) - Released by Capriccio on 4 Feb 2013
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Felix Mendelssohn: Early Songs
Ruth Ziesak, Carsten Suss, Gerold Huber
Classical - Released by Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin on 15 Oct 2011
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo