Dorothea Hofmann

The works of pianist, composer and musicologist Dorothea Hofmann, born in Bamberg in 1961, have already been performed in Australia, Brazil, South Korea and Japan, among other places. Her extensive repertoire includes orchestral works and chamber music as well as songs, choral and solo works. Hofmann was awarded a prize for piano at the international Gaudeamus Interpreters’ Competition in Rotterdam in 1993, and in 2007 she received the Palazzo Barbarigo della Terrazza Artist Fellowship in Venice as a composer. She studied choral conducting, piano, philosophy and musicology in Munich, Salzburg and Augsburg and now teaches as a professor of musicology and music sociology at the Munich University of Music and Performing Arts.