Biography
Katharina Treutler was born in Erfurt, Germany. When she was seven years old she began playing piano at the music school in her home town. At age 13 she played her first concerto with orchestra and became student of Professor Sigrid Lehmstedt in Weimar. After her A-levels, she studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover with Professor Bernd Goetzke where she obtained a diploma. After this she spent some time abroad at the Tokyo College of Music. She has subsequently obtained her Masters whilst studying at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris with Professor Jacques Rouvier. In Paris Katharina has also studied chamber music with Claire Desert and musicology at the Université Sorbonne Paris. Since september 2011 she is a student of Professor Dmitri Bashkirov at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Madrid.
Among others, Katharina has been participating in master classes with professors Arie Vardi, Bernard Ringeissen, Matti Raekallio, Dmitri Bashkirov, Bruno Rigutto and Mikhail Voskresensky.
She has given concerts in China, Armenia, Cyprus, Italy, Belgium, Poland, France, Spain and Japan. She has been invited to play at festivals such as Lisztomanias de Châteauroux, Piano en Saintonge, the Braunschweiger Classix Festival and The International Pharos Chamber Music Festival in Cyprus.
Katharina Treutler has played with the Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonisches Orchester Erfurt, Orchester der Deutschen Kinderärzte, Jenaer Philharmonie, Meininger Hofkapelle, Harmonie de la Ratp Paris, Studentenorchester der Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover and Junge Philharmonie Thüringen.
She has won numerous national and international competitions such as the International Piano Competition Luciano Luciani, Italy, Les Rencontres Internationales des Jeunes Pianistes, Belgium, Bundeswettbewerb Jugend musiziert (category piano - solo), Steinway-Klavierspiel-Wettbewerb, Berlin (category four-handed) with a special prize of the Deutsche Chopin-Gesellschaft e.V., Grotrian-Steinweg-Wettbewerb, Braunschweig, Bundeswettbewerb Jugend musiziert (category four-handed) with "Diethard-Wucher-Preis" as well as the special prize of the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben. She won second prize at the Nationaler Bach-Wettbewerb, Köthen and several other awards.