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Ulrich Stærk

piano
Ulrich Stærk © Maiken Ingvordsen

Ulrich Stærk has been a much sought-after concert pianist in Denmark since his debut in Copenhagen in 1989, and has a wide-ranging career on the Continent with concerts in cities like Paris, Vienna and London. He has worked with artists like Yo-Yo Ma, Barbara Frittoli, Inga Nielsen and the Rubinstein Quartet, and has been a soloist with several orchestras; among these we can mention the Schleswig-Holstein Symphony Orchestra, the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, the Tivoli Symphony Orchestra and the regional orchestras in Århus and North Slesvig in piano concertos by Chopin, Mozart, Ravel, Bartók, Shostakovich, de Falla, Beethoven, Grieg, Gershwin and Czerny.
Ulrich Stærk has performed at a number of festivals: in Helsinki, Glasgow, Arc-et-Senans and Paris. Ulrich Stærk has also premiered much new Danish piano music, not least abroad. He has recorded music by the 19th century American composer Louis Moreau Gottschalk and has appeared as an accompanist on a wealth of recordings.

  • Bo Gunge

    12 Studies

  • Gabriel Fauré, Camille Saint-Saëns, Claude Debussy, Louis Vierne

    More French Pieces

  • Herman D. Koppel, Per Nørgård, Poul Ruders, Niels Rosing-Schow, Anders Nordentoft

    Conversations for violin and piano

  • Carl Nielsen, A.P. Berggreen, Oluf Ring, Otto Mortensen, C.E.F. Weyse, P.E. Lange-Müller, Thomas Laub, Poul Schierbeck, Thorvald Aagaard

    Fra Højskolesangbogen

  • Herman D. Koppel

    Concertos

  • Carl Nielsen

    Songs

  • Erik Jørgensen

    Confrontations

  • Peter Heise, P.E. Lange-Müller

    Songs

  • Rued Langgaard

    Lieder