Katharina Treutler

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

Katharina Treutler

Early life and education

Katharina Treutler was born in Erfurt. She studied in Hanover,^[2] Tokyo, Paris, Madrid, and Freiburg.^[3] Her professors were Bernd Goetzke, Jacques Rouvier, Dmitri Bashkirov and Eric le Sage.^[4]

Career

Treutler performs in Europe, Asia and the US^[4][5] - solo and with orchestras such as the London Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra^[6] the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra. She has performed at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam,^[7] the Bunka Kaikan Hall Tokyo^[8] and the Davies Symphony Hall San Francisco.^[9]

Since 2016, she has been teaching at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig.^[10][11]

Awards and honours

She has won several international prizes,^[12] including joint third prize at the 2013 Campillos International Piano Competition.

Recordings

• 2010: Brahms Piano concerto no. 1 with the German Pediatrician’s Orchestra^[13]
• 2015: Final Symphony with the London Symphony Orchestra^[14]

Publications

• 2013: Journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience: "The influence of chronotype on making music: circadian fluctuations in pianists’ fine motor skills"^[15]