Renate Rohlfing

Hawaiian pianist Renate Rohlfing received her musical training at the Juilliard School in New York. As a Lied accompanist and chamber musician, she has performed internationally at Carnegie Hall (New York), Wigmore Hall (London), Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), and the Ravinia Festival (Chicago) among many others. In 2016 she was awarded the ‘Sonderpreis Klavier’ (Special Piano Prize) at the ‘Internationaler Wettbewerb für Liedkunst Stuttgart’. The year before, she won second prize in the Wigmore Hall Song Competition. Renate Rohlfing is one of the founders of the piano trio ‘Longleash’, which Strad Magazine UK praised as an ‘experienced young trio’, notable for their ‘refined and diligent musical artistry’. The trio work with renowned concert venues and support contemporary composers with their ‘Loretto Project’ Festival as well as various multimedia initiatives. As a song accompanist, Renate Rohlfing is a frequent guest at music festivals around the world, including the Cincinnati May Festival, Spoleto Festival USA, and the Ravinia Festival, where her long-term collaboration with James Conlon began. Together with Äneas Humm, she has given concerts in various forums, including the Bremen Music Festival and in a special event at Schloss Bellevue for German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier. In addition to her pianistic activity, Renate Rohlfing works as a music therapist at the Nordoff-Robbins Institute at New York University and as a professor at the Berklee College of Music in Boston.