Born in Weimar, pianist Daniel Heide is one of the most sought-after vocal accompanists and chamber musicians of his generation. He performs in recital series and festivals all over Europe as well as in Asia: for instance, in the Konzerthäuser in Vienna, Berlin and Dortmund, the London Wigmore Hall, the Schubertiade in Schwarzenberg and Hohenems (Austria), the Heidelberg Spring Festival, and the Oxford Lieder Festival.
In addition to his ongoing collaboration with vocalists including Andrè Schuen, Christoph Prégardien, Simone Kermes, Ingeborg Danz, Britta Schwarz, Roman Trekel, and Tobias Berndt, he has also accompanied lieder recitals with renowned singers such as Regula Mühlemann, Fatma Said, Benjamin Appl, Sheva Tehoval, Dietrich Henschel, Dorottya Lang, Patrick Grahl, Katharina Konradi, Hanno Müller-Brachmann, Luca Pisaroni, Konstantin Krimmel and Johannes Weisser.
He also loves sharing the stage with actors and narrators including Christian Brückner, Udo Samel, Thomas Thieme, and Hanns Zischler in the genre of melodrama. Daniel Heide had a close collaboration with the late German-Greek mezzo-soprano Stella Doufexis. Their CD Poèmes with songs by Claude Debussy was awarded the German Record Critics’ Prize. As a chamber music partner in duo sonata recitals he has concertized with outstanding soloists including Sabine Meyer, Tabea Zimmermann, Antje Weithaas, Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt, Jens Peter Maintz, and Danjulo Ishizaka.
Daniel Heide is the founder and artistic director of the vocal recital series Der lyrische Salon. Held in Ettersburg Castle near Weimar, the series has existed since 2011 and is one of the few – anywhere in the world – that is devoted exclusively to artsong. In that context he has collaborated with a great number of celebrated soloists of the lied genre in roughly 100 recitals.
On CAvi-music he recorded with baritone Andrè Schuen songs by Robert Schumann, Hugo Wolf, Frank Martin and a Schubert album Wanderer; with Roman Trekel most famous Loewe Ballades, with Stella Doufexis Hamlet Echoes, with Konstantin Krimmel Liszt Songs and the album Liebe with the soprano Katharina Konradi, and released three solo albums with Beethoven sonatas.

Andreas Willwohl is one of the leading violists of his generation. He trained with Professor Alfred Lipka at the Universities of Musik “Franz Liszt“ in Weimar, and “Hanns Eisler“ in Berlin; he also received valuable artistic counsel from renowned musicians including Wilfried Strehle, Norbert Brainin, Eberhard Feltz, Kim Kashkashian, and the members of the Alban Berg Quartet.
He was a prizewinner at the Concours International de Bordeaux (2002) and at the Salzburg Mozarteum Summer Academy, and was awarded study grants by the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes and the Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now Foundation in Berlin.
As a viola virtuoso and chamber music partner, Andreas Willwohl has appeared at a number of international festivals including Salzburg, Schubertiade, Schleswig-Holstein and Bogotá; he played with colleagues including Johannes Moser, Julian Steckel, Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt, Isang Enders, Marc-André Hamelin, Lauma Skride and Daniel Heide.
As a soloist he has concertized with the Berlin RSO, Korean Chamber Orchestra, the Brandenburg Symphony, the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, the Deutsches Kammerorchester Berlin, and the Metamorphosen Chamber Philharmonic (Berlin), collaborating with conductors of the likes of Marek Janowski, Patrick Lange, Christoph Poppen, Matthias Foremny, Conrad van Alphen, and Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt, and appearing in venues including the Berlin Philharmonie, Seoul Arts Center, Toppan Hall in Tokyo, the Auditorium in Dijon, and Metz Congress Hall. A great number of broadcast recordings and CD releases on the Pentatone and Audite labels offer further proof of his versatile talent.
In 2011, Andreas Willwohl was appointed viola professor at Nuremberg University of Music; he imparts masterclasses in Europe and Asia on a regular basis. He has been a member of the Mandelring Quartet since 2015, and in 2012 he founded the Ceres Ensemble.
After one of his appearances at the Berlin Philharmonie, a critic wrote: “Not since the Alban Berg Quartet’s Thomas Kakuska have I found the performance of a violist in a chamber music ensemble so utterly convincing.” Andreas Willwohl plays an instrument by Stefan Peter Greiner with a bow by Dominique Peccatte.