The internationally renowned pianist and two-time "Echo Award Winner" (2002 and 2004) Gerold Huber was born in Straubing in 1969.

He studied piano with Friedemann Berger as a scholarship holder at the University of Music in Munich, Lied composition with Helmut Deutsch and attended Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau's Meisterklasse in Berlin.

In 1998 he received the Prix International Pro Musicis in Paris. In 2001 he was a prize-winner at the Intern. Piano Competition Johann Sebastian Bach in Saarbrücken.

As a Lied accompanist, Gerold Huber has performed at such important festivals as the Schubertiades in Schwarzenberg/Austria and Vilabertran/Spain, the Rheingau Music Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein Festival, as well as the festivals in Cheltenham and Saintes.

Further numerous performances took place in concert halls such as the Kölner Philharmonie, the Alte Oper Frankfurt, the Gewandhaus Leipzig, the Konzerthaus Vienna, the Konzertgebouw Amsterdam, the Wigmore Hall London, as well as the Frick Collection New York.

With solo programs devoted primarily to the works of Bach, Beethoven, Schubert and Brahms, the pianist has performed at the Max Josephsaal of the Munich Residence, the Kultursommer Kassel, the Schwetzingen Festival, the European Weeks Passau, the New Zealand Festival in Wellington, the Theatre Municipal Romains-sur-Isere (France) and the Chamber Festival Bantry (Ireland). With the Bremen Philharmonic Orchestra under Florian Ludwig he performed Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, with the East Bavarian Chamber Orchestra all Beethoven concertos, Shostakovich's 1st Piano Concerto and Schumann's Piano Concerto.

The recordings of Winterreise (2002) and Schönen Müllerin (2004) were each awarded the coveted Echo-Klassik.

In addition to Christian Gerhaher, Gerold Huber accompanies Ruth Ziesak, Franz-Josef Selig, Cornelia Kallisch, Diana Damrau, the Liedertafel and Susanne Brantl, among others.