Helmut Deutsch Author

Helmut Deutsch ranks among the finest song recital accompanists in the world. Born in Vienna, he studied at the Conservatoire, Music Academy and the University. He was awarded the Composition Prize of Vienna in 1965, was appointed professor at the age of twenty-four, and continued his teaching primarily in Munich at the Hochschule fur Musik und Theater, where he worked as a professor of song interpretation for twenty-eight years. Although he has performed with leading instrumentalists as a chamber musician, Helmut Deutsch has concentrated primarily on accompanying song recitals. At the beginning of his career he worked with the soprano Irmgard Seefried, and accompanied Hermann Prey as a permanent partner for twelve years. Subsequently he has worked with many of the greatest recital singers and played in the world's major music centres. His collaborations with Jonas Kaufmann, Diana Damrau, Piotr Beczala and Michael Volle are among his most notable. The young Swiss tenor Mauro Peter was one of his last students in Munich and has become one of his favourite recital partners.