Frederike Möller plays, performs, creates, conducts, writes, and talks! For this, she has received, among other things, the Music Promotion Award of Germany’s state capital. She studied piano, art management, musicology, and philosophy in Munich, Cologne, Düsseldorf, and Warsaw and wrote her doctoral thesis on mad characters in opera literature.

She began playing the piano at the age of five and has never stopped. Whether she is hosting lecture concerts on music history or performing as a sought-after “piano athlete,” fanatically interpreting new and contemporary music, or blurring all genre boundaries with her toy piano in a highly sensitive and cabaret-like manner, she does so freely and in the spirit of Karl Valentin: “A medal has three sides: a front, a back, and a funny one.”

Concerts and lectures have taken Frederike to Italy, Austria, Belgium, Russia, Poland, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Korea, and Japan. In addition to the Schumanns and their contemporaries, her work as an artist, scholar, and festival director focuses on contemporary music and performance art. Here, she places particular emphasis on cultural mediation concert projects in public spaces.

Frederike is the artistic director of the International Düsseldorf Organ Festival, founder of the Düsseldorf Toy Piano Festival, and advises cultural institutions and companies on topics related to art and music. http://frederikemoeller.de