Ulrich Eisenlohr

Ulrich Eisenlohr studied at the Heidelberg/Mannheim conservatory, with Rolf Hartmann, and at the Stuttgart conservatory, where he studied lied with Konrad Richter. Specializing as a lied accompanist and chamber music pianist, he began an extensive concert career with performances at the Vienna Musikverein and Konzerthaus, the Berlin Festival Weeks, the Kulturzentrum Gasteig in Munich, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Frankfurt Festival, the Edinburgh Festival, the International Beethoven Festival Bonn and the Ludwigsburg Festival, and many others. As accompanist, he has performed with lieder singers such as Christian Elsner, Matthias Goerne, Dietrich Henschel, Wolfgang Holzmair, Hanno Müller-Brachmann, Christoph Pregardien, Roman Trekel, Rainer Trost, Iris Vermillion, Michael Volle, Ruth Ziesak and others.

Eisenlohr has made a number of recordings for the Sony Classical, Harmonia Mundi, cpo and Naxos labels. He was notably the artistic leader of Naxos's Deutsche Schubert Lied Edition, a 38-CD series of all of Franz Schubert's songs, more than 700 altogether, featuring all German singers.

Ulrich Eisenlohr has been a lecturer at the Frankfurt and Karlsruhe conservatories, and has conducted master classes in lied and chamber music in Europe and Japan, with singers as Ruth Ziesak, Jard van Nes and Rudolf Piernay. He has been assistant and accompanist for master classes with Hans Hotter, Christa Ludwig, Elsa Cavelti, Daniel Ferro and Geoffrey Parsons. Since 1982, he has taught a lieder class at the Mannheim Conservatory of Music.[1] Among his students were i.a. Caroline Fischer. He also teaches masterclasses at the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria.[2]

• Ulrich Eisenlohr's biography and discography on the Naxos web site
• Ulrich Eisenlohr's biography on the Mannheim University of Music and Performing Arts web site