Biography

Camilla Köhnken studied piano with Pierre-Laurent Aimard (Cologne), Jerome Rose (New York), and Claudio Martínez Mehner (Basel) and had lessons with Claude Frank, Dmitri Bashkirov (Verbier), Richard Goode, or Ferenc Rados (Prussia Cove/Lenk/Basel).

She played solo concerts at Carnegie Hall, New York, the Palacio de Festivales, Santander, or the Teatro La Fenice, Venice. Additionally, she regularly performs on fortepianos, for example at the Beethovenhaus Bonn (Conrad Graf of 1824; John Broadwood of 1817), at the Beethovenhaus Baden near Vienna (Graf of 1818) or the Haydnhaus Eisenstadt (Walter of ca. 1785).

From early on, Camilla combined her solo career with chamber music projects in different formations, covering a wide-ranging repertoire. Since 2011, she has been performing with saxophonist Pedro Cámara Toldos (Ivory & Reed) and with David da Silva, clarinet and Adam Newman, viola (Philon Trio) as well as with Swiss cellist Chiara Enderle (see Recordings).

In 2018, she completed a doctorate on interpretation strategies of Franz Liszt and his circle at the University of Bern/Hochschule der Künste Bern, Switzerland, as part of Kai Köpp’s research group on 19th century Instructive Editions. 2019-2022, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Tom Beghin’s project “Declassifying the Classics” at the Orpheus Institute in Ghent, Belgium. Since 2024, she teaches performance practice and historical musicology at the Joseph Haydn Privathochschule in Eisenstadt, Austria.