Verena Louis

Pianist Verena Louis has a prominent stand- ing among the world’s great accompanists; she is equally at home in Lied repertoires as well as chamber music for strings. Verena Louis was born in Paris, and grew up in France, Germany, and Portugal. She received her piano and cham- ber music education from Roswitha Gediga and Michael Endres at the Musikhochschule Köln, and from the Amadeus Quartett and the Alban-Berg-Quartett.Following prizes at numerous competitions, many national and international competitions now invite her to act as accompanist, for example the Deutscher Musikwettbewerb, the Internation- aler Violinwettbewerb in Cologne, the interna- tional Júlio Cardona competition in Portugal, or the Concours International de Genève.She has held the post of accompanist for Adelina Oprean’s violin classes at the Musik- hochschule Basel for twenty years, and since 2013 she has additionally been engaged as principal repetiteur for strings at the Musik- hochschule Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy in Leipzig. Her artistic versatility is documented by appearances at the Festspiele Mecklenburg- Vorpommern and the Rheingau Musik Festival, chamber music tours across Europe, a number of première performances, as well as her role as tutor for chamber music at the Académie de musique de chambre de Thury.Verena Louis lives in Leipzig with her family.