Katharina Sellheim

Katharina Sellheim - piano, performs regularly at international music festivals such as
the Beethoven Festival in Bonn, the Heidelberger Fruehling Festival, the Schleswig
Holstein Music Festival and the Mahler Festival in Toblach. She is active as a soloist, a
chamber musician and accompanist, and teaches at the Hanover College of Music
and Drama. Friedrich Fischer-Dieskau commissioned her to accompany his master
classes in Sankt Paul in 2004 and 2005. She has given master classes in China, and
was invited by the Barenboim-Said-Foundation in 2006 to teach in Ramallah,
Jerusalem and other cities in Palestine and Israel. Katharina Sellheim won a
scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation, the Richard Wagner
Association, and numerous scholarships from the German Academic Exhange Service
(DAAD). She won first prize in the Gedok Music Competition and studied in Hanover with Karl-Heinz
Kaemmerling and Markus Becker, and in Paris with Germaine Mounier.