Gershwin Piano Quartet

Stefan Wirth is a Swiss-/American dual citizen, hopelessly addicted to music in all its forms, who lives in Zurich with his family of four trying to coordinate his many musical activities as best he can.

As a pianist he concentrates on contemporary music and as a member of the ensemble CNZ (Zurich, Switzerland) or Contrechamps (Geneva, Switzerland) he has worked with numerous conductors and composers such as Pierre Boulez, Beat Furrer, Enno Poppe and Rebecca Saunders. On the theatrical stage he regularly collaborates with the directors Anna-Sophie Mahler and Christoph Marthaler and has appeared as musician/actor at the Biennale Venezia (Italy), the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Volksbühne Berlin (Germany). His catalogue of works contains close to 30 pieces for various ensembles.

His opera «Girl with a pearl earring», based on the eponymous novel by Tracy Chevalier, was premiered at the Zurich Opera in the spring of 2022 and was selected as Opera premiere of the year by the journal Opernwelt. He was appointed professor for piano performance at the Hochschule für Musik Lucerne.

stefan@gershwinpianoquartet.com