Manfred Huss

The Viennese-born conductor and pianist Manfred Huss is a musician with as firm a foothold in the music of the twentieth century as in historical performance practice. He studied the piano with Alexander Jenner, and initially followed the career of a pianist, making numerous recordings and giving concerts all over Europe. Since the late 1980s – inspired by H.C. Robbins Landon – he has focused his pianoplaying on historical pianofortes. At the age of 17, in parallel with his piano studies, Manfred Huss was accepted as a student by the legendary conductor Hans Swarow - sky, a representative of the great musical tradition of Vienna, and a direct link to such composers as Strauss, Schoenberg, Hindemith, Bartók, Stravinsky and even Mahler. In 1984 Huss founded his own chamber orchestra, which in 1991 dev - eloped into the Haydn Sinfonietta Wien. With it he has recorded numerous ac - claimed discs, including many previously unperformed and unrecorded works by Haydn. Manfred Huss has appeared as a soloist and conductor at major festivals in cities including London, Paris, Salzburg, Evian, Florence, New York, Frankfurt (Alte Oper), Brussels (La Monnaie) and Prague. Among the orchestras he has conducted are the City of London Sinfonia, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, UNAM Philharmonic of Mexico, Polish Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra, Belgrade Phil - har monic Orchestra, Tonkünstler Orchestra and Camerata de Coahuila. In addition to his work as a performer, Huss has edited Hans Swarowsky’s writings on conducting and interpretation, published under the title Wahrung der Gestalt by Universal Edi tion. He is also the author of the first modern German-language monograph on Haydn. In recent years Huss has extended his activities by giving lectures and con ducting masterclasses in Vienna and Lucerne.