Gerald Schuller, born 1968 and raised in Mistelbach/Lower Austria, is one of the most versatile pianists and keyboard players in Austria as well as a renowned composer and arranger.

He picked up the piano at the age of 9, six years later he attended the Vienna Conservatory, studying jazz piano with Rudi Wilfer and earning a masters degree in jazz theory under Heinz Cadek.

1988 he joined Austrias legendary rock theatre outfit "Hallucination Company", playing keyboards and trumpet as well as arranging and composing for the band. In 1993 he left the band to become founding member of the highly successfull vocal group "The Rounder Girls".
2003 he became a teacher at the Vienna University Of Music / Institute Of Popular Music, giving lectures on composing and arranging.
He is also busy working as MD for various theatre and musical productions in the Vienna curcuit, and as a sideman for artists as diverse as Matt Dusk, Paul Capsis (who took him along to Melbourne and the Sydney Opera House for his triumphant solo performance "Boulevard Delirium"), Bill Ramsey, Sertab Erener, Harry Stojka and countless others.

 
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