An Austrian pianist. A graduate of the Vienna Academy of Music, where he was taught by Paul Weingarten, Bruno Seidlhofer and Richard Hauser. He won First Prize in the Geneva International Competition and in a competition in Rio de Janeiro, as well as Second Prize in the Gian Battista Viotti Competition in Italy. He gave the first performance in Austria of works by George Gershwin, including the Piano Concerto in F major and Rhapsody in Blue, a piano version of Igor Stravinsky’s Petrushka and also Aram Khachaturian’s Piano Concerto, under the composer’s baton. He has performed and recorded contemporary music, including twelve-note compositions by Hanns Jelinek and works by Karl Marx. In 1969, he took up a professorship in piano at the Vienna College of Music. He was a juror of the Chopin Competition in Warsaw in 1975.
