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Robert Koenig

Associate Professor of Piano and Chamber Music

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Pianist Robert Koenig has quickly established a reputation as a much sought-after collaborative pianist and chamber musician.   He performs regularly in major centers throughout the world with many of this generation's most renowned musicians.   Recent engagements have included performances at Carnegie Hall in New York, The Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, The Concertgebuow in Amsterdam, and the Louvre Museum in Paris.   He has performed with many of today's leading artists including Sarah Chang, Hilary Hahn, Pamela Frank, Roberto Diaz, Elmar Oliveira, and Aaron Rosand.

Mr. Koenig has appeared at many festivals including Aspen, Ravinia, Banff, Saratoga, Caramoor, the Seattle Chamber Music Festival, the El Paso Pro Musica, the Campos do Jordao Festival in Brazil, and the Mostly Mozart Festival in New York. He is frequently heard on radio and television including ABC's "Good Morning America" and CBS "This Morning".   Mr. Koenig was staff pianist at both The Juilliard School and The Curtis Institute of Music before accepting his current position as Associate Professor of Piano and Piano Chamber Music at the University of Kansas in Lawrence.   With the assistance of the University of Kansas Center for Research, Mr. Koenig commissioned renowned American Composer Lowell Liebermann to write a new trio for flute, cello and piano.

Mr. Koenig has recorded for Artek, Ambassador, Biddulph, Cedille, CRI, Decca, Eroica, and Naxos.   His most recent CD of transcriptions for viola and piano by William Primrose was released in June/2006 on Naxos with violist Roberto Diaz.

Born in Saskatchewan, Canada, Robert Koenig began his formal training at the Vancouver Academy of Music with Lee KumSing and Gwen Thompson and later studied at the Banff School of Fine Arts and the Academie Musicale di Chigiana in Siena, Italy.   During this time he received several awards from the Canadian Government including a Canada Council Project Grant.   He completed both his Bachelors and Masters degrees in Accompanying at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia where he studied with Dr. Vladimir Sokoloff and chamber music with Felix Galimir and Karen Tuttle.