Heinrich Schiff
Heinrich Schiff ( born November 18, 1951 in Gmunden ) is an Austrian cellist and conductor.
Life
Heinrich Schiff comes from a musical family. Both parents, Helmut and Helga ship Riemann ( granddaughter of Hugo Riemann ) were composers. At six years old he received his first piano lessons at the age of 10, he joined the School of Music at Roland Linz Rois cello to learn. He then studied with Tobias Kühne and André Navarra in Vienna in Detmold. In 1971 he made his debut in Vienna and London.
Since then, the ship is a welcome guest in many orchestras and conductors in Europe, the USA and Japan. Among other things, he worked with conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Sergiu Celibidache, Colin Davis, Christoph von Dohnányi, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Zubin Mehta, Giuseppe Sinopoli and Franz Welser -Möst. Many composers have written works for ship that He premiered (including Witold Lutoslawski, Hans Werner Henze, Ernst Krenek, Wolfgang Rihm, Friedrich Gulda, Hans Zender and Otto M. Zykan ).
On record he recorded the entire major cello repertoire, both solo works as well as the great cello concertos. For his recording of the solo suites by JS Bach and the two cello concertos by Shostakovich, he was awarded the Grand Prix du Disque Académie Charles Cros. For his recording of the Double Concerto ( Brahms ) with Frank Peter Zimmermann, he was awarded the German Record Critics' Award.
Since about 1990, the ship is also dedicated to conducting. He is always conducted major orchestras such as the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Musikkollegium Winterthur and Dresden Staatskapelle.
He also acts as a high school teacher, first at the College of Music and Dance Cologne, then at the University of Basel, later at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. Since 1990 he has been principal guest conductor of the Bruckner Orchestra Linz. From 2006 to 2009 he directed the music days Mondsee. A commitment to ship the outstanding young musical talent is currently (August 2010) in the direction of the Young Euro Classic Festival Orchestra South Eastern Europe, which is composed of selected music students of South Eastern European origin, including the former Yugoslav states. Heinrich Schiff plays the two cellos Mara by Stradivari (1711 ) and The Sleeping Beauty by Montagnana ( 1739 ).
In spring 2012, the ship announced that he finish his career as an instrumental soloist.