Richard Fuller & Karoline Pilcz
Biography Richard Fuller & Karoline Pilcz
Richard Fuller
In the three decades since arriving in Vienna - the city of Mozart, Schubert, Beethoven and countless other renowned musicians - Richard Fuller's artistic work has given decisive impulse to the fortepiano revival in Austria and Germany. Richard is among a select few who have sought to utilize exclusively the specific expressive possibilities of the fortepiano (Hammerklavier), evoking the sensitivity and delicate nuances of an earlier "Klavierkultur" and convincingly projecting them to the listener in a fusion of historical awareness and distinctive personal style.
The emphasis of Richard's work today is in both the music of the Viennese Classical period and that of the north German "Empfindsamkeit" (the sons of J.S. Bach, E.W. Wolf, F.W. Rust u.v.a) and their contemporaries. He is active as collaborative fortepianist in song recitals (Karoline Pilcz, Cornelia Horak) and numerous chamber/orchestral constellations including Musica Aeterna (SL), Capella Academica Wien (Leitung Eduard Melkus) and the Richard Fuller Fortepiano Trio.
Fuller's multi-faceted career as concert performer, recording artist, producer and music scholar is further documented in world premier recordings of the piano works of Ignaz Pleyel, piano quartets op. 40 of Johann Baptist Wanhal, and the complete sonatas of the "French Mozart" Hyacinthe Jadin (1776-1800).
Karoline Pilcz
The soprano KAROLINE PILCZ, who comes from Mödling near Vienna and has received musical training in piano, flute and classical ballet since early childhood, earned degrees from both the University of Vienna and the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. She completed master classes with Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Peter Svensson, Helena Lazarska and Keti Tavardi. At the moment she is being coached vocally by Keti Tavardi and Nikolai Varionov.
Her repertoire includes the great opera arias by Mozart and the Italian composers of the 19th century. She has already performed successfully on stage as Pamina (The Magic Flute) and Madame Herz (The Drama Director). She has also performed as Euridice (Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice) and as Maria (Bernstein: West Side Story). Her roles include: Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte), Giulietta (I Capuleti e I Montecchi), Micaëla (Carmen), Lauretta (Gianni Schicchi), Mimì (La Bohème) and Cho Cho San (Madame Butterfly). She also sings arias from operettas, all major secular and sacred concert works, sacred works such as oratorios, passions, cantatas and masses, as well as works from the Italian late Renaissance and early Baroque. She can also be heard singing Lieder. Cross-over projects, chanson programs and collaborations with composers in the field of new music round off her work as a singer. Tours and opera gala concerts have taken her beyond Austria's borders to Germany, Slovenia, Italy and in 2013/14 and 2018/19 as a soloist to China, where she performed at the Oriental Art Center in Shanghai with arias by Verdi and Puccini as well as samples of Austrian operetta.
Karoline Pilcz made her debut at the Vienna Musikverein in July 2013 with arias by Mozart. She also performed there again in the following years - with arias by Christoph Willibald Gluck. The concerts were broadcast on "Radio Stephansdom".
In 2020, the roles of Dido (Purcell: Dido & Aenas) and Marzelline (Beethoven: Fidelio) are on her agenda, as well as various aria and song recitals, concerts around the Beethoven year and the publication of a Beethoven songbook for singing students.
Karoline Pilcz is also the artistic director of the Mödling Festival "Moving Beethoven".
She lives in Mödling near Vienna and speaks German, English, French and Italian.
