Gottlieb
WALLISCH

Born to a Viennese family of musicians, Gottlieb Wallisch was admitted to the Vienna University for Music and Performing Arts at the age of six years, and later graduated with distinction from the class of Heinz

Medjimorec. He has participated in master classes given by Oleg Maisenberg and Dmitrij Bashkirov, and studied with Pascal Devoyon in Berlin and with Jacques Rouvier in Paris. Gottlieb Wallisch is a prize winner of several international piano competitions, amongst which is the 1st Prize at The Stravinsky Awards (USA). He was also a finalist both at the 1999 Queen Elizabeth Competition in Brussels and at the XXI. Concours Clara Haskil in Vevey in 2005.
Gottlieb Wallisch has performed with leading orchestras including the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, the Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna, the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, the Sinfonia Varsovia, the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Youth Orchestra, and the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, under conductors like Giuseppe Sinopoli, Dennis Russell Davies, Lord Yehudi Menuhin, Louis Langrée, Sir Neville Marriner, Lawrence Foster and Helmut Müller-Brühl. Numerous concert tours have taken him to the USA (Carnegie Hall, Washington DC), Great Britain (Wigmore Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall), Japan, Hong Kong, the Middle East, Africa, and many European countries, including Spain, Germany and Switzerland.
In the season of 2001/02 he participated in the international cycle "Rising Stars", and gave solo recitals in the largest European capitals as well as in the USA (Musikverein Vienna, Konzerthus-Stockholm, Societé Philharmonique in Brussels, the Athens Concert Hall, Wigmore Hall, London and the Carnegie Hall, New York).
He has made appearances at renowned festivals and concert halls, for example the Lucerne Festival, Piano Festival Ruhr, Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, Tonhalle Zürich, Carinthian Summer, Klangspuren Schwaz, and many more. In the summer of 2002, Gottlieb Wallisch gave his much-acclaimed debut at the Salzburg Festival. Recent seasons have seen him performing at the Musikhalle Hamburg, the Kölner Philharmonie, “De Doelen” Rotterdam and the Wiener Festwochen.
In addition to being a soloist Gottlieb Wallisch dedicates a significant part of his time to chamber music. He enjoyed fruitful collaborations with the Küchl-Quartet and Alois Posch, the Wiener Virtuosen, Oleg Maisenberg, Milan Turkovic and Jan Kobow to name but a few.
The Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF), Radio France International and BBC London have recorded numerous radio and television performances with him.