Pianist Cordelia Höfer, born in Munich/Bavaria, has performed in numerous festivals over the last 30 years, including „Mostly Mozart” New York, „Kontrapunkte” at the Salzburger Osterfestspiele (Austria), Luzern Festival (Switzerland), the Kuhmo Festival in Finland, the Mozart-Woche in Salzburg, Mozart Festival Cluj, Theatre Festival Sibiu (Romania), the Summer Festival in Portogruaro (Italy), BUNT-Festival Belgrade (Serbia), Osterfestspiele Baden-Baden (Germany), Shanghai Piano Festival (China), among many others.
Since the early 90s, she has regularly played concerts with members of the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.
Furthermore, she performed concerts with artists including Ruggiero Ricci, Aurora Natola-Ginastera, Rainer Honeck, Noah Bendix, Wilfried Strehle, Sarah Willis, Götz Teutsch, Ivry Gitlis, Heinrich Schiff, Thomas Riebl, Anna Prohaska etc.
She completed her studies in piano at the universities in Salzburg (Hans Leygraf) and Munich (Klaus Schilde, Hugo Steurer) with highest honors. In Salzburg she also studied conducting (Gerhard Wimberger) and chamber music.
In 1979 she won the first prize of the „Kurt Leimer Competition“ of the Mozarteum in Salzburg.
She acquired further valuable inspiration from Wilhelm Kempff, Sandor Vegh, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Tatjana Nikolajewa and Elisabeth Leonskaja.
At the age of 15 she gave her debut in Munich with orchestra performing Carl Maria Weber's Konzertstück op. 79. Since that time her extensive concert experience involving solo appearances with renowned orchestras and chamber music groups has taken her to many countries in Europe, to the USA, Chile, Korea, China, and Japan.
From 2006 on, she performed several concerts with her children Saskia Roczek (www.lichtentaltrio.com) and Leonhard Roczek (www.minettiquartett.at), including a concert tour in Japan.
She began teaching at the Mozarteum in 1982 with a lectureship.
Since 2002, she has been a professor for piano and chamber music at the University Mozarteum.
Her students have won more than 50 prizes in international competitions in recent years.
