Artists biographies
Paul Gulda

“My first teachers were two jazzmen, Fritz Pauer and Roland Batik; my father Friedrich Gulda taught me unconditional devotion to music, Leonid Brumberg taught me the fundamentals of the Russian school. Rudolf Serkin showed me real kindness and support. I see it as my task to put all that together, if possible go further, and to pass it on to others.” The words of pianist Paul Gulda, born in Vienna in 1961.

Since 1982 he has mastered countless international concerts and productions as a soloist, chamber musician, improviser, conductor and composer. As a pianist he has performed with well-known orchestras under famous conductors such as Zubin Mehta, Kurt Masur and Yehudi Menuhin, and played alongside numerous chamber musicians, including Martha Argerich and the Hagen Quartett.

Paul Gulda has made more than 20 CDs with music of a variety of styles, for labels including Deutsche Grammophon, MDG, JVC and Naxos. In 2008 he brought out Brahms’s violin sonatas with Takumi Kubota, and in 2009 the works for violin and piano by Szymanowski with Joanna Madroszkiewicz.

As a composer he has specialized in the writing of music for the stage. His work “Stimmen im Widerhall. Ein musikalischer Diskurs” was written to mark the 54th anniversary of the liberation of the Mauthausen concentration camp. In addition he has concerned himself with various musical projects, one of the best known being “Haydn alla Zingarese”, a joint effort between classical musicians and a Roma-Banda, as well as the conception and presentation of musico-literary programmes.

Paul Gulda is a well-known teacher at the international level, and has given master classes worldwide since 1998. From 2001 to 2003 he was visiting professor at the Vienna Conservatoire.