Christoph Denoth

He studied at the conservatoires of Lucerne and Zurich and was trained as a soloist at the Basel Musikakademie with Oscar Ghiglia, during which time he also attended masterclasses with Pepe Romero. He studied Conducting and the Phenomenology of Music with Sergiu Celibidache and has since conducted a number of orchestras, most notably in Basel.

Christoph gave his London debut recital at Wigmore Hall in October 2012 as part of the BBC Live Lunchtime Solo Recital series and made his BBC Proms debut in 2013. He regularly performs as a soloist with chamber orchestras and ensembles such as the Nouvel Ensemble Contemporain, English Chamber Orchestra, the Offenburger Streichtrio, the Sacconi Quartett, and has appeared as a soloist in Carnegie Hall (New York), the Philharmonie (Berlin), Wigmore Hall and Kings Place (London), the Mozarteum (Salzburg), and at international music festivals including the Schleswig-Holstein (Germany).

Christoph has won prizes at the UBS Culture Award for Music and the 35^th Concours International de Guitare de Paris, sponsored by Radio France.

As a soloist with orchestra, Christoph has played and toured with the London Symphony orchestra, the Melbourne chamber orchestra, the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, State Orchestra Hanover, the Orquesta de Cordoba, and in guitar concertos like Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez and Lorenzo Palomos Nocturnos de Andalucia. He has also performed with the English Chamber Orchestra under Gary Walker in Maurice Ohana’s Trois Graphiques. He premiered Lorenzo Palomo’s last Guitar concerto The garden of Bacchus in 2019 with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2023 he premiered his newly orchestrated version of the Suite Espagnole by Isaac Albéniz with the Orquesta Filarmónica de Bogotá .

His CD recordings include: Guitar concertos with the London Symphony Orchestra under Jesus Lopez Cobos (Signum classics) with Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuéz and Lorenzo Palomo’s Nocturnos de Andalucia; a ground-breaking CD An den Mond with Martina Janková (soprano) (Philips/Universal) of lieder by Schubert, Mozart and Haydn; solo albums Mister Dowland’s Midnight and Homages; a collection of musical dedications by Sor, Villa-Lobos, Rodrigo and others (Signum classics); the album Tanguero with Music from Argentina by Piazzolla and others (Signum classics).

Christoph has accompanied vocalists Keith Lewis and Martin Snell. He has also worked with Dame Felicity Lott at the Oxford Lieder Festival and taken part in the BBC’s Spirit of Schubert week, accompanying Ruby Hughes (soprano) and premiering a rare piece by Schubert for guitar and male trio. With Ruby Hughes and tenor James Gilchrist he has also given a BBC Proms recital of Benjamin Britten’s Songs from the Chinese and Folksong Arrangements.

Christoph was Musician-in-Residence at Balliol College, Oxford from 2006 to 2009. He has been invited to lecture and give master classes at Oxford University, Glasgow University, Musikhochschule Luzern, Tulane University New Orleans, Skopje University, the University of Sheffield (lecture on Science and Music with physiologist Denis Noble), Tirana University, Western Carolina University, St. Bonaventure University, Bangkok University, and international guitar and and chamber music festivals.

Regarding contemporary music he premiered Hans Martin Linde’s 5 Traces after Benjamin Britten in Buenos Aires (2013), Lorenzo Palomo canciones sefardiés 2011, The garden of Bacchus 2019, Stephen Goss TIME (2018).