The pianist Florian Hölscher studied under Robert Levin, Michel Béroff and Pierre-Laurent Aimard in Freiburg, Paris and Cologne. He also drew significant inspiration from the conductor Peter Eötvös. His repertoire encompasses solo and chamber music works from the 17th to the 21st century. He is particularly passionate about premiering new works. For many years, Florian Hölscher has maintained a close working relationship with contemporary composers, particularly Marco Stroppa, Alberto Posadas and Isabel Mundry.
As a soloist, he has worked with conductors such as Peter Eötvös, Christopher Hogwood, David Zinman, François-Xavier Roth, Kent Nagano and Sylvain Cambreling, as well as with orchestras such as the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, the SWR Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart, the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, the SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg, the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra and the Stuttgart State Opera Orchestra.
He has appeared in solo recitals at festivals such as Présences (Radio France, Paris), Eclat Stuttgart, Agora (IRCAM, Paris), the Bartók Festival in Szombathely, the Salzburg Festival, the Heidelberger Frühling, the Lucerne Festival, the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris and the Tonhalle in Zurich.
Between 2015 and 2018, Alberto Posadas wrote the 80-minute solo cycle Erinnerungsspuren for him, which was performed at venues including WDR Cologne, the Luxembourg Philharmonie and the Wien Modern Festival at the Berlin Konzerthaus. In 2024, the premiere of Posadas’s piano concerto took place in Madrid with the Orquesta Nacional de España.
Florian Hölscher has an extensive discography. His CD recording of Marco Stroppa’s Miniature estrose and his recording of solo and duo works by Jonathan Harvey have won several awards, including the Diapason d’Or. His recording of solo works by Salvatore Sciarrino and Alberto Posadas’s Erinnerungsspuren received an extremely positive media response worldwide. A CD recording of piano sonatas by Joseph Haydn was recently released.
Florian Hölscher is a founding member of the Stuttgart-based ensemble Ascolta, with whom he performs regularly at many major festivals of contemporary music and has built up a repertoire of over 300 ensemble works.
Florian Hölscher was Professor of Piano and Chamber Music at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts from 2008 to 2018. In the winter semester of 2018, he was appointed to a professorship in piano at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts.
