Paul Gulda

Piano (Classical Music)

Artistic & Pedagogical Education 

  • Early musical education and violin from the age of 5
  • Piano playing from the age of 8 (Fritz Pauer, Roland Batik; including improvisation lessons) Studies of recorder and clarinet at the MDW Vienna
  • From the age of 15 piano with F. Gulda
  • 1984-1987 final studies with Rudolf Serkin, USA

Teaching Experience

  • Many years of pedagogical practice, since 1998 until today regular master classes in several countries. 
  • 2001-2003 Visiting professor at the University of Music in Vienna
  • 2013-2016 Lecturer at the private music boarding school AMADEUS, Vienna
  • Since 2022 teacher at the Friedrich Gulda School of Music 

Concerts & Performances (Excerpt)

  • Activities in chamber music (Heinrich Schiff, Hagen Quartett, Wolfgang Schulz, Ensemble Wien - Berlin a.o.) and as soloist. Orchestras: Vienna Philharmonic, Symphony Orchestra, RSO, Mozarteum, Moscow Tchaikovsky Philharmonic, Leipzig Gewandhaus, etc.
  • Collaboration with conductors such as Kurt Masur, Zubin Mehta, Yehudi Menuhin, Wladimir Fedossejew and others
  • Improvisational performances with jazz pianist Makoto Ozone, with cantor Shmuel Barzilai (Vienna Synagogue), with oud player and singer Marwan Abado (Beirut), with painter Erdmuthe Scherzer-Klinger, with Viennese singer Agnes Palmisano, cellist Erich O. Hütter and jazz musicians such as Harry Sokal and Fabian Rucker
  • The concert project "Haydn alla Zingarese", already created in 1993, in collaboration with Roma musicians, updated for the Haydn Year in 2009.
  • In the Liszt Year 2011, cooperation with Roma musicians again: "Roma Rhapsody", Franz Liszt and Gypsy music

Discography 

  • 1984: KLAVIERDUO MIT ROLAND BATIK (AMADEO) 
  • 1990: SCHUMANN KLAVIERWERKE (NAXOS) 
  • 1992: SCHOSTAKOWITSCH KLAVIERKONZERTE (MUSICA) 
  • 1993: BEETHOVEN SONATEN (MUSICA) 
  • 1993: MIT HAGEN QUARTETT (DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON)
  • 1993: SCHUMANN KLAVIERWERKE (MUSICA)
  • 1993: HAYDN ALLA ZINGARESE (MUSICA) 
  • 1995: MIT HAGEN QUARTETT (DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON)
  • 1996: MIT VERONIKA HAGEN; IRIS VERMILION (DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON)
  • 1995–1996: MIT CLEMENS HAGEN (JAPAN VICTOR CORP.)
  • 1997: JOSEPH JOACHIM (MUSICA) 
  • 1997: GERSHWIN/BEETHOVEN (JBPH) 
  • 1998: RAVEL KLAVIERKONZERT G-DUR (ORF-CD) 
  • 1999: F. GULDA CELLOKONZERT - PG COND. (HERA, STUTTGART)
  • 1999: WOLFGANG LIEBHART (EXTRAPLATTE)
  • 2002: FAURÉ/POULENC/KOECHLIN/MILHAUD (HERA, STUTTGART)
  • 2004: CHOPIN TRANSKRIPTIONEN VIOLINE/KLAVIER ( MDG DETMOLD)
  • 2004: BALDUIN SULZER KLAVIERWERKE; (WEINBERG RECORDS ) 
  • 2006: DE FALLA/ROSSINI/RAVEL/BELLINI (GRAMOLA WIEN) 
  • 2006: MOZART KONZERT F. 3 KLAVIERE (LIVE LUGANO) 
  • 2007: EGON WELLESZ/ BEETHOVEN/HAYDN (GRAMOLA WIEN, LIVE) 
  • 2008: BRAHMS VIOLINSONATEN & SCHERZO(OCTAVIA TOKYO) 
  • 2009: SZYMANOWSKI GES. WERK VLN & KLAVIER (MDG DETMOLD) 
  • 2013: GERSHWIN RHAPSODY IN BLUE ( ORF LIVE-CD) 
  • 2014: „JUBEL & ELEND“ (PG PROD/LAND NÖ) 
  • 2014: „WIE AUS DER ZEIT GEFALLEN“ (FREYA VERLAG LINZ) 
  • 2015: MASAAR HUBB/ PATH OF LOVE. (GRAMOLA WIEN) 
  • 2015: BRAHMS SONATEN FÜR CELLO & KLAVIER