»Exemplary is the beautiful iridescence of the piano pieces that
  Theill plays with great joy at the promise of self-absorption in
  normal everyday: music at the blue hour.«

  — Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

VITA

As one of the few female pianists specializing in Lied interpretation,
Karola Theill has made her name as a performer, teacher and university
lecturer.

She appears in concert throughout Germany and abroad (f.e. Musikverein
Wien, Opéra de Bastille, Paris) as well as in Israel, the USA and China.

She has been the collaborate partner of singers including Dietrich
Fischer-Dieskau, Benjamin Bruns, Okka von der Damerau, Angela Denoke,
Matthias Goerne, Klaus Häger, Fionnuala McCarthy, Thomas Mohr, Martina
Rüping, Nadine Weissmann and others.

Born in Cologne, Karola Theill was trained as a pianist at the music
academies of Hamburg and Berlin. She attended Lied courses given by
Aribert Reimann, and for several years was the accompanist for Dietrich
Fischer-Dieskau’s Lied interpretation classes.

She was awarded a fellowship to study at the Indiana University, School
of Music in Bloomington. Another important artistic influence has been
her close collaboration with the pianist Shoshana Cohen in Jerusalem.

Karola Theill taught more than 20 years at the Hochschule für Musik
Hanns Eisler Berlin and conducts a class for Lied interpretation at the
Hochschule für Musik und Theater Rostock.

In addition she gives regular Masterclasses for Lied interpretation in
Berlin, at the Sankt Goar International Music Festival and Academy
(Germany), at the Music Academies in Poznan and Warsaw (Poland), Riga
(Latvia), Vilnius (Litauen), Cluj (Rumänien), Castelfranco (Italien),
Jerusalem (Israel), Los Angeles (USA) and Hang Zhou (China) and is a
sought-after member of the juries of international competitions for Lied
duo.

Her activities are documented in radio recordings and on numerous CDs.

Contact

Mail: mail@karolatheill.de

Website: https://karolatheill.de

See also our website: https://liedinkorea.com