Jochen Schubert
Jochen Schubert is a versatile guitarist whose work takes in solo recitals, chamber music, orchestral playing, conducting, arranging, lecturing and accompaniment across a wide repertoire.
He teaches at the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, and the Faculty of Music at the University of Melbourne. Born in Hamburg, he studied guitar in Vienna and has lived in Australia since 1970. He has performed widely abroad, including in Vienna, Tokyo, London, Istanbul, Cairo and Bangkok.
‘Jochen Schubert is a master of the guitar ... producing very beautiful tones and exquisite shadings.’ (The Age)
‘Clean, precise technique, impeccable taste and consistently thoughtful musicianship.’ (The Herald)
Merlyn Quaife and Jochen Schubert have been a duo for more than ten years. Their wide-ranging repertoire runs from Elizabethan songs with lute through to contemporary works, with composers including Dowland, Morley, Weber, Schütz, de Falla, Musgrave, Britten and Copland. They are regular broadcasters for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and their Move programme Night and Dreams (MD 3115) sets Mozart and Schubert beside Spanish and Argentinian song.
‘Merlyn Quaife, accompanied on guitar by Jochen Schubert, sang Dowland, Mozart, Françaix and others with an exquisite sense of style.’ (The Herald)
Jochen Schubert is featured on the following titles
Night and Dreams
Soprano Merlyn Quaife and guitarist Jochen Schubert present songs by Mozart and Schubert, among them the Serenade and Nacht und Träume, with Spanish and Argentinian folksong settings by Moretti, Gerhard and Guastavino.
Compositions by Jochen Schubert also appear on
World Music
The Melbourne Mandolin Orchestra presents music from around the world: Latin American dances, Klezmer, Slavic folk and blues, in contemporary works that still draw on traditional song and dance.
Producer
Jochen Schubert also appears on
The Marvellous World of George Dreyfus, Vol. 2
The second volume of marvellous music from one of Australia’s favourite composers, George Dreyfus. The programme ranges across folk ballads, choral suites, film and television themes, chamber works and solo showpieces, and gives a clear view of his many-sided craft.
The Marvellous World of George Dreyfus, Vol. 1
A survey of marvellous music by the well-known Australian composer George Dreyfus, one of the country’s most animated musical personalities, spanning concert, film, choral and children’s repertoire.
Rush, The Adventures of Sebastian the Fox and Other Goodies
An enjoyable collection built around two of George Dreyfus’s best-known scores, the charting TV theme Rush and the suite from the ABC children’s series The Adventures of Sebastian the Fox.
Victorian Time Machine
The Victorian Time Machine, directed by Richard David Hames, grew out of the Victorian College of the Arts as an instrumental and vocal ensemble for new music. This 1979 programme pairs Guillaume Dufay with works by Hames, Barry Conyngham and James Fulkerson.
