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The son of a Viennese family of musicians, Gottlieb Wallisch was admitted to the Vienna University for Music and Performing Arts at the age of six and a half 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 and the “Grand Prix Ivo Pogorelich” at “The Stravinsky Awards” (USA) as well as becoming finalist both at the "Queen Elizabeth Competition" in Brussels 1999 and the XXI. Concours Clara Haskil in Vevey 2005. Gottlieb Wallisch has been performing 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, the Brabants Orkest 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 led him to the USA (Carnegie Hall, Washington DC), Great Britain (Wigmore Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall), Japan, Hong Kong, Spain, Germany, Switzerland, the Near and Middle East, Africa and many other European countries. In the season 2001/02 he participated in the international cycle "Rising Stars" and gave solo recitals in the largest European capitals as well as the USA (Musikverein Vienna, Konzerthus-Stockholm, Palais des Beaux Arts Brussels, the Athens Concert Hall, Wigmore Hall, London and the Carnegie Hall, New York). He has made guest appearances at renowned festivals and concert halls, e.g. The Lucerene Festival, Piano Festival Ruhr, Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, Tonhalle Zürich, Carinthian Summer, Klangspuren Schwaz etc. In the summer of 2002, Gottlieb Wallisch gave his much-acclaimed debut at the Salzburg Festival. Last seasons saw him performing amongst others at the Musikhalle Hamburg, the Kölner Philharmonie, “De Doelen” Rotterdam and the Wiener Festwochen. His current season includes a cycle of three concerts as Artist in Residence at the Vienna Musikverein, a tour with Camerata Salzburg to Singapore as well as appearances in Japan and at festivals Europe-wide. In addition to being a soloist Gottlieb dedicates a significant part of his time to chamber music. He enjoyed fruitful collaborations with the Küchl-Quartet and Alois Posch, the Henschel Quartet, the Wiener Virtuosen, Oleg Maisenberg, Julian Rachlin, Wolfgang David and Milan Turkovic to name a few. His most recent CDs were two extremely well-received discs of Schubert Piano Sonatas on the Naxos Label and the world-premiere-recording of Eric Zeisl’s Piano Concerto in C-Major on “cpo”.
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