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加拿大著名钢琴与室内乐教授。早年毕业于温哥华音乐学院，后到意大利美术学院进修深造。在美国费城音乐学院获音乐学位与硕士学位。他与夫人埃蕾娜(小提琴演奏家)经常一起在劳伦斯、坎萨斯和纽约巡演。他也定期与同时代的许多杰出的音乐家在世界各大城市巡演。近年来他参加的演出有华盛顿的肯尼迪中心、纽约的爱丽丝杜蕾剧院、东京的桑土蕾剧院、韩国的汉城艺术中心、阿姆斯特丹的音乐会以及巴黎罗浮宫博物院等场合。与他同台的有当今活跃于世界乐坛的如：赛拉·张、希拉里·韩、帕米拉·法拉克等艺术家。
他还参加过众多的艺术节演出，如：阿斯本、巴西、美国的西雅图、纽约等。电台与电视台也经常播发他的钢琴演出，如美国公共电台、英国广播公司、加拿大CBC网络电台等。
Robert Koenig
Assistant Professor of Piano and Chamber Music
Canadian pianist Robert Koenig has quickly established a reputation as a much sought-after collaborative artist 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 the Kennedy Center in Washington, Alice Tully Hall in New York, Tokyo’s Suntory Hall, the Seoul Arts Center, 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, Ida Kavafian, Elmar Oliveira, Sidney Harth, and Aaron Rosand.
Mr. Koenig has appeared at many festivals including Aspen, Ravinia, Banff, the Campos do Jordao Festival in Brazil, the Seattle Chamber Music Festival, and the Mostly Mozart Festival in New York. He is frequently heard on radio and television, including National Public Radio, the BBC in London, the CBC Network in Canada, ABC’s “Good Morning America,” and CBS‘s “This Morning.” From 1992-1999, Mr. Koenig was staff pianist at the Juilliard School and in September 1999 he became staff pianist at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. In the fall of 2000, he was appointed Assistant Professor of Piano and Piano Chamber Music at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. Mr. Koenig has recorded for Artek, Ambassador, Biddulph, Cedille, CRI, Eroica, and Naxos. His most recent CD of favorite encores for violin and piano with violinist Elmar Oliveira was released in May 2001 on the Artek Label.
Born in Saskatchewan, Canada, Mr. 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 di Chigiana in Siena, Italy. During this time he was the recipient of several awards from the Canadian Government, including a Canada Council Project Grant. Mr. Koenig completed both his Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Accompanying at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia where he studied with Vladimir Sokoloff and chamber music with Felix Galimir and Karen Tuttle.
Currently, Mr. Koenig and his violinist wife Elaine share their time between homes in Lawrence, Kansas and New York City.
Mr. Koenig's recording of the "Concerto in D for violin, piano, and string quartet" by Ernst Chausson has been re-released on the Artek Recordings label. The excerpt is from the fourth movement.
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