Bastian Uhlig was born in the Ore Mountains in 1998. He studied harpsichord, organ, basso continuo and fortepiano at the Royal Conservatory in Brussels and at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Weimar, where he graduated with honours. His first CD recordings as a harpsichordist for the Accent label have recently been nominated for the German Record Critics’ Award, and his concerts have been recorded by Deutschlandfunk Kultur, Corporación Radio e Televisión de Galicia and Bayerischer Rundfunk, among others.
Bastian Uhlig holds a position as regional cantor in the Waltershausen/Ohrdruf church district, where he also plays the famous Trost organ (1724/1730) in the Waltershausen town church. He has received numerous invitations to perform as a soloist in Spain, France, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Italy, the Ukraine, Mexico, Israel, Austria and Germany, for example at the Handel Festival in Halle and the Friedrich Stellwagen Organ Festival in Stralsund, I Concerti di Campagna (Rome), International Gluck Festival (Bayreuth/Nuremberg), Peregrinos Musicales (Santiago de Compostela), Old City Festival (Jerusalem), Bach Tribute (Banská Štiavnica), Passions Croisées (Strasbourg) or Encuentros con el Patrimonio artístico (Málaga).
Whether a.o. as a harpsichord soloist accompanied by the Real Filharmonía de Galicia, the Thüringen Philharmonie Gotha-Eisenach or the Philharmonisches Orchester Vorpommern, for organ recitals in the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela and in the Church of the Redeemer in Jerusalem, as part of a solo concert tour in Andalusia or when he performs together with Ton Koopman, Midori Seiler, Valer Sabadus, Michael Hofstetter and numerous others: Bastian Uhlig is regarded by critics as a versatile ‘master of his craft’, for which he has received several international awards.
