ULRICH EISENLOHR

The pianist Ulrich Eisenlohr is the artistic leader of Naxos Deutsche Schubert Lied Edition. He studied piano with Rolf Hartmann at the conservatory of music in Heidelberg/Mannheim and Lieder under Konrad Richter at Stuttgart. Specialising in the areas of song accompaniment and chamber music, he began an extensive concert career with numerous instrumental and vocal partners in Europe, America and Japan, with appearances at the Vienna Musikverein and Konzerthaus, the Berlin Festival Weeks, the Kulturzentrum Gasteig in Munich, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Edinburgh Festival, the Frankfurt Festival, the International Beethoven Festival Bonn and the Ludwigsburg Festival, among many others. His Lieder partners include Christian Elsner, Matthias Görne, Dietrich Henschel, Wolfgang Holzmair, Hanno Müller-Brachmann, Christoph Pregardien, Detlef Roth, Sibylla Rubens, Roman Trekel, Rainer Trost, Iris Vermillion, Michael Volle, Ruth Ziesak.

Ulrich Eisenlohr has also appeared in numerous broadcast productions, live concert recordings and television tapings as well as CD recordings for leading record companies, of which several have been awarded major prizes, such as the German Record Critics’ Quarterly Award, a Grand Prix International from the Académie du Disque Lyrique in Paris and the Classical Internet Award. The conception and recording of all Schubert songs has been an important focus of his artistic work. The series was finished in 2009.

Ulrich Eisenlohr has been a lecturer at the conservatories of music in Frankfurt and Karlsruhe and since 1982 has directed a Lieder class at the Mannheim Musikhochschule. He has conducted masterclasses in Lied and chamber music in Europe and Japan, with singers such as Ruth Ziesak, Jard van Nes and Rudolf Piernay, and assisted at mastercourses with Hans Hotter, Christa Ludwig, Elsa Cavelti, Daniel Ferro (Juillard School, New York) and Geoffrey Parsons.

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Role: Classical Artist
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