Biography
Piano

Alexander Schmalcz received his earliest musical tuition as a member of the Dresdner Kreuzchor. This was followed by studies at the Musikhochschule Dresden, the Utrechts Conservatorium and the Guildhall School of Music & Drama where his teachers were Iain Burnside and Graham Johnson. The pianist’s accolades include the Gerald Moore Award of 1996 and the Megan Foster Accompanist Prize. As an active chamber musician his piano trio also won the Nederlands Impresariaat Competition.

Alexander Schmalcz tours internationally as a song accompanist and performs at such festivals as Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, Salzburger Festspiele, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, Schwetzinger Festspiele, Tanglewood Festival and Prague Spring. His regular appearances include at major venues such as Wigmore Hall London, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Wiener Musikverein, Berliner Philharmonie, Leipziger Gewandhaus, Kölner Philharmonie, Théâtre du Chatelet, Théâtre de la Monnaie Bruxelles, Royal Opera House London, Kennedy Center Washington D. C., Tokyo Opera City Hall and Frauenkirche Dresden. The pianist enjoys a close collaboration with many distinguished singers such as Grace Bumbry, Peter Schreier, Matthias Goerne, Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Stephan Genz, Eva Mei, Christiane Oelze, Chen Reiss and Stephan Loges and has worked with instrumentalists including Albrecht Mayer, Dmitri Ashkenazy and the Petersen Quartet.

The artist records for various CD labels and gives broadcasts for the BBC, German. Japanese and Dutch radio stations. As the pianist of Matthias Goerne he has recorded a CD with songs by Franz Schubert for Harmonia Mundi. OehmsClassics have issued several discs of songs by Mozart, Zilcher, Schubert, Liszt and Wagner.

Alexander Schmalcz has taught at the Robert-Schumann-Hochschule in Düsseldorf since 1999 and continues to give highly acclaimed master classes all over the world.