Phillipp Kronbichler

Born in St Pölten in 1980 I was trained as a classical concert pianist at the music academies in Salzburg, Vienna and Cologne with Anton Czjzek, Noel Flores and Klaus Oldemeyer This also included the successful participation in various national and international piano competitions In addition to solo performances, I have increasingly devoted myself to chamber music and new music in recent years and founded the pianoduo elaeis together with the Cologne pianist Jovita Zahl
From 2008 to 2019 I worked as a lecturer at the Cologne Music Academy and as a piano teacher at the Richert Music Academy in Cologne/Merheim, the Music Factory in Cologne Niehl and the Rochus Music School in Cologne Ehrenfeld I returned to Austria in 2019 and have been teaching at the music school in my hometown of St Pölten ever since Appearances as a pianist and composer in Vienna, Linz, Salzburg, Cologne and New York, both as a soloist and with an orchestra (Vienna Chamber Orchestra, ORF Symphony Orchestra
and Bruckner Orchestra Linz), as an accompanist and in a piano duo
Composing as a second artistic expression came to me later, I deepened it in 2004 2008 studying composition with Friedrich Jaecker at the Cologne University of Music There I also received important artistic suggestions So far, mainly piano, vocal and chamber music works from duo to quartet have been created In 2013 I co founded the Cologne composers group zeitKlang with some fellow colleagues.