My dear friend Thomas Herrmann motivated me to join him at a hard but beautiful sports event! The Mozart100! It’s a trail run – not a concert – from Fuschl to Salzburg!! We…

Of course our 6 week-residence at Salzburg Festival every year is an artistic highlight for me. This year I performed the acclaimed Aida-Series with Netrebko and Muti, the Shostakovich 7 with Nelsons, Mahler…

This is the breakfast you enjoy the next day AFTER the Vienna City Marathon! Cafe Schwarzenberg opposite Musikverein is one of my favourite places for breakfast in vienna. But back to the Marathon. The…

          On April 10, 2016 will be my next attempt at the Vienna City Marathon. From today on 7 weeks and 3 days should be enough time for good preparation.…

The most beautiful place: Austria – Carinthia, lake Ossiachersee, high above in the sky…

2 weeks after the Vienna City Marathon I wanted to check my running pace. In between rehearsals with Daniel Harding (Mahler, Song from the Earth) and the Neill Shicoff-Gala at the opera, I…

YESSS! With the immense support of friends and family, the goal I worked for during the last months became reality. It was a big event, about 40 000 runners at the start, and…

After the NYC concerts (Brahms Symphonies @ Carnegie Hall) and icy-cold days of intensive training in Central Park  (or Munich, Hamburg and Athens, before) I’m back in Vienna and in the final weeks…

2015 is officially my year of family, sports and vacation! Nice! After an extraordinary intense travel and concert schedule in the past few years, I will try to spend as much time as…