Portfolio

Wilhelm F. Walz can look back on a diverse career performing as a conductor, violinist, chamber musician, as well as serving as artistic director for various concert series.

Tours, concerts, recitals, and appearances at festivals have taken him throughout Europe and to the United States. He promotes the artistic development of young musicians as an instructor and competition jury member.

Artistic Director and Initiator

The “Nachtkonzerte” series
Philharmonic Matinee Recitals (chamber music subscription series) since 1985
“Musik vor Bildern” concert series since 1990
“Klassik-Treff” – a forum for award-winning young concert artists
“Histoire du Soldat“ opera project
„Concerts in the Fronhof“ Festival since 1999 (opera, orchestral, chamber music, cross-over repertoire)

Festivals and Concert Tours

Bad Hersfelder Festspiele
Wiblinger Festspiele
Ludwigsburger Schloßfestspiele
Chopin-Festival Gaming/Österreich
Schleswig-Holstein-Festival
Prague Spring
Beethoven-Festival in Prague
The Viennese Evenings Festival at the Chamber Music Auditorium of Moscow’s Tschaikowsky Conservatory
New Music Festival in Slovenia
Concerts and concert tours in nearly all European countries and the US

Premiere Performances / German Premieres

Shostakovich, Trio No. 1, Op. 8 (1984)
Paul Ben Haim, Piano Trio (1997)
Volker Nickel, Violin Concerto 1991 (1992)
Helmut Bernert, Violin Concerto 1954 (1993)
Kerstin Thieme, Violin Concerto 1975 (1994)
Alexandre Tansman, Violin Concerto 1937 (1997)

Faculty and Jury Member

Master classes at Kirchheim Castle (Austria)
Master classes at the summer academy of the Collegium Musicum Schloss Pommersfelden (Germany)
Master classes at Lenzburg Castle (Switzerland)
Master classes at Irsee Abbey
Jury Member at the 2nd International Leopold Mozart Competition for Young Violinists in Augsburg
Jury member at the 44th Prague Spring Competition