Oliver Triendl

As a solo recitalist, concerto soloist, and chamber musician, pianist Oliver Triendl has specialized in little-known repertory, most of it from the German-speaking sphere. He has a large catalog of recordings, many of them on the <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22CPO%22">CPO</a> label.

Triendl was born in Mallersdorf, Bavaria, West Germany, in 1970. He took private lessons from a series of prominent teachers, including Rainer Fuchs, Karl-Heinz Diehl, Eckart Besch, <a href="spotify:artist:6aldsrorHXbSzvcLUnqweo">Gerhard Oppitz</a>, and <a href="spotify:artist:0uIlrJqe58rIie9LnMS1ow">Oleg Maisenberg</a>. Prizes in various national and international competitions helped launch Triendl's career. He made his recording debut in 1992 on the <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Thorofon%22">Thorofon</a> label, joining the Czech State Philharmonic Orchestra on an album that included <a href="spotify:artist:2UqjDAXnDxejEyE0CzfUrZ">Schumann</a>'s Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54, and <a href="spotify:artist:0Kekt6CKSo0m5mivKcoH51">Rachmaninov</a>'s Piano Concerto in C minor, Op. 18. Triendl then recorded the Chopin and Ravel concertos for <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Thorofon%22">Thorofon</a> in 1994. In 1996, he released an album of piano works by Harald Genzmer on <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Thorofon%22">Thorofon</a>, and since then, he has devoted almost all of his recording career to the revival of music by neglected composers. He has devoted several albums each to <a href="spotify:artist:6EezT72ORhobG36hAvwEjH">Genzmer</a>, Ludwig Thuille, Paul Juon, and Dora Pejačević; the latter was all but unknown when Triendl released an album of her chamber works on the <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22CPO%22">CPO</a> label in 2011.

Triendl has been unusually energetic as a performer. He has appeared across Europe and the Americas, as well as in South Africa, Russia, Japan, India, and China. He has performed as a concerto soloist with several major German orchestras, including the <a href="spotify:artist:5jSyEHI4tPkBgp84luyqpO">Munich Philharmonic</a>, as well as abroad with groups such as the <a href="spotify:artist:7q3JfRssj6LEV6Y2b6Je2T">Chamber Orchestra of Lausanne</a>, the St. Petersburg Camerata, the <a href="spotify:artist:5axjIS5grj9EJYzXJW10IY">Shanghai Symphony Orchestra</a>, several orchestras in Poland, and the <a href="spotify:artist:7m5yQHpGKbm9YHcUdrZElN">Mozarteum Orchestra</a> of Salzburg. Triendl is also an enthusiastic chamber music player whose collaborators include such world-class performers as violinist <a href="spotify:artist:0b7df8SeNFCgnJj5Wjg5c8">James Ehnes</a>, clarinetist <a href="spotify:artist:6kuAjH8jM4yaKQhZekTUgL">Sabine Meyer</a>, and cellist <a href="spotify:artist:02bDUUUCAdpFob66KNgPtF">Tanja Tetzlaff</a>. Triendl founded the Classix Kempten International Chamber Music Festival in Bavaria's Allgäu region in 2006. His efforts to record little-known material have been untiring. He appeared on seven recordings in 2022 and six in 2023 despite pandemic-era recording difficulties, and by the mid-2020s, his catalog comprised more than 100 items. ~ James Manheim, Rovi