Gerhard Vielhaber

Gerhard Vielhaber was twelve when he became a private pupil of Karl-Heinz Kämmerling, under whose tutelage he was awarded his diploma at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media in 2006. He later studied in Jacques Rouvier’s class at the University of the Arts in Berlin until his concert exam.

In addition to numerous first prizes at the national competition “Jugend musiziert”, he won the first prize in the Concertino Praga Radio Competition in 1997. Further awards followed, such as the 2003 GWK Young Artist Award by the Gesellschaft für Westfälische Kulturarbeit, Münster (Westphalia). As a finalist in the 2005 German Music Competition in Berlin he joined the list of artists supported by the German Music Council.

Among the leading festivals where he has appeared are the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, while his concert work has taken him to the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, Philharmonie in Berlin, Liederhalle Stuttgart, and Wiener Konzerthaus as well as to North and Latin America and Japan. As a soloist he has performed with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, the Venezuelan National Youth Orchestra, and the Warsaw Radio Symphony Orchestra. His Mariani Piano Quartet’s recordings of Brahms/Gernsheim Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 were awarded a Diapason d’Or in 2021 and 2022.

He holds a scholarship from the German Foundation for Musical Life and has also received support from the Jürgen Ponto Foundation and the German Academic Scholarship Foundation. From 2014 to 2024 he has taught as a professor for piano and chamber music at the Stella Vorarlberg Private University College for Music in Feldkirch, Austria. Since 2024 he is a professor for piano chamber music at the Cologne University of Music and Dance.

Picture: Irène Zandel

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