Georg Baich was born in 1958 in Graz - Austria. He began his violoncello training in the class of Hildgund Posch-Schwarz in the Academy of Music and Performing Art in Graz. After graduating from high school he enrolled at the academy and continued his education under the teaching of Jannis Chronopoulos. At the same time he studied Slavic culture (Russian, Bulgarian and Serbian-Croatian languages, music ethnology and Byzantine studies). Upon graduation from the academy he specialized for two years (1983-85) in the class of the prominent Emmanuil Fishman - Petersburg conservatoire "Nikolay Rimskij-Korsakov". In 1989 he began his teaching career in Vienna (Konservatorium Wien-Privatuniversität и Musikschule Margareten). His students are laureates in many local and international contests - Prima la musica, Youth contest after the name of Mravinskij - St. Petersburg, the festival "Augustin Prohazka" in Košice (Slovakia), the violoncello festival in Varpalota (Hungary) and the International contest for violoncello in Liezen (Austria). Together with Elisabeth Eschwe Georg Baich founded summer courses in the Festetics Castle at Kesthely, and Hedervar Castle, Hungary ; he has teaches at summer-academies such as Senec and Orava, Slovakia ; Lilienfeld Monastery, Austria ; Plovdiv Austrian Festival and the “academia-orfei” in Shiroka Lukka, Bulgaria . He is married to the Russian pianist Natalia Baich-Girshenko, and is father of the international solo-violinist Lidia Baich.