Christine Schornsheim

Christine Schornsheim is known as a wonderful musician and her instruments are the harpsichord and the fortepiano. She specialises in the repertoire of baroque and early classical music and although she is a popular soloist she loves making music with colleagues like Andreas Staier, Hille Perl and Kristin von der Goltz or with ensembles like the Ensemble Zefiro. Tours have taken her to most countries in Europe as well as the US and regularly she does concerts in Japan. In addition to doing concerts she is also regularly engaged in recordings for radio stations and for CD productions. Quite a few of the latter have won international prizes: for the recording of all piano sonatas by Joseph Haydn which she did on various historical pianos – this was a co-production of Capriccio and WDR Cologne – she was awarded the annual Diapason d'Or Award, the Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik and the ECHO Klassik, for the CD „Mozart am Stein Vis-a-vis“ (harmonia mundi France) which she recorded together with Andreas Staier she received the Annual Diapason d’Or Award, and the recording of "Goldbergvariationen" by Johann Sebastian Bach (Capriccio) was praised by the press internationally and in November 2016 was chosen as CD of the week by the Magazine Forbes.In 1992 Christine Schornsheim was elected Professor for harpsichord and fortepiano at the University of Music and Theatre »Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy« Leipzig. With the beginning of the winter term 2002/2003 she moved to Bavaria and took on the professorship for harpsichord at the University of Music and Theatre Munich which she still holds. In addition she took on the class for harpsichord at Royal Danish Academy of Music for one year and a 3-months guest professorship at the Tokyo University of the Arts (Geidai). To do master-classes in Germany and in many other countries is part of her musical and teaching life as is to be part of international juries in Moskow, Prague, Brugge, Washington, and Leipzig.