Katharina Treutler

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Katharina Treutler

Katharina Treutler (born 1985 in Erfurt) is a German pianist. [1]

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Biography

Born in Erfurt, Treutler performs in Europe, Asia and the US [2] [3] - solo and with orchestras such as the London Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra [4] the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra. She has won several international prizes, [5] including joint third prize at the 2013 Campillos International Piano Competition. She studied in Hanover, [6] Tokyo, Paris, Madrid, and Freiburg. [7] Since 2016 she has been teaching at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig. [8] [9]

Her professors were Bernd Goetzke, Jacques Rouvier, Dmitri Bashkirov and Eric le Sage. [2]

She has performed at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, [10] the Bunka Kaikan Hall Tokyo [11] and the Davies Symphony Hall San Francisco. [12]

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