Norman Shetler

Norman Shetler (* June 16, 1931 Pennsylvania, USA) is an Austrian pianist, puppeteer and professor of American descent.

Life and career

Norman Shetler was born in Pennsylvania, USA. He came in 1955 to Austria to study in Vienna. He finished his studies in 1959. Shetler is then particularly as a piano accompanist of vocal soloists as Anneliese Rothenberger, Peter Schreier, Dietrich Fischer- Dieskau and Thomas Quasthoff, but also of instrumental soloists as Nathan Milstein and Heinrich Schiff become known, but made ​​himself as a concert pianist a name.

Later he became professor of piano and song composition, first from 1983 to 1991 at the Musikhochschule in Würzburg and then, from 1992, at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. On more than 70 recordings of the pianist is heard.

Even after his retirement, Norman Shetler was still master classes, including regularly at the Summer Academy of the Mozarteum Salzburg.

For 35 years he has performed as a puppeteer with his " musical puppet cabaret " in three continents, at festivals and on television.

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