Cellist, conductor, recitalist, chamber musician, teacher, guru to young musicians... few if any can claim to have mastered all these areas with such intensity and accomplishment as Heinrich Schiff. In the next 18 months, Britain will see Schiff in all these capacities; concertos with the London Symphony and London Philharmonic, conducting the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, a recital series at Wigmore Hall, chamber music with Frank Peter Zimmermann and Christian Zacharias and more. First though, he played the Haydn C Major Concerto in March with the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Music Director Christoph von Dohnanyi at the Royal Festival Hall (repeated the same week at the Chatelet in Paris), while in the same week performing the complete Beethoven Sonatas and other works with pianist Till Fellner at Wigmore Hall (recorded subsequently by Philips Classics). Schiff's performances notoriously combine fiery commitment as well as extraordinary musical power that embraces everything he touches. Long regarded as one of the world's greatest cellists, it is now also in the conducting field that he has shown time and time again that his special communicative talents inspire orchestral musicians as much as the public; here he can look forward to prestigious guest engagements with the Dresden Staatskapelle, Munich Philharmonic, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Swedish Radio Symphony, Santa Cecilia (Rome), Vienna Radio Symphony and to his work as the newly-appointed Principal Guest Conductor of the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, a post he will carry together with his Chief Conductor positions in Copenhagen and Winterthur in Switzerland. And even in the midst of this crazy schedule, Schiff maintains an almost crusading commitment to teaching, together with the leadership and nurturing of young talent that can only inspire admiration from his peers.