Pianist Cordelia Höfer, born in Munich/Bavaria, has performed in numerous festivals over the last 30 years, including „Mostly Mozart” New York, „Kontrapunkte” at the Salzburg Easter Festival (Austria), Lucerne Festival (Switzerland), the Kuhmo Festival in Finland, the Mozart-Woche in Salzburg, Mozart Festival Cluj, Theatre Festival Sibiu (Romania), the Summer Festival in Portogruaro (Italy), BUNT-Festival Belgrade (Serbia), Osterfestspiele Baden-Baden (Germany), Shanghai Piano Festival (China), among many others.
Since the early 1990s, she has regularly performed chamber music concerts with members of the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Furthermore, she has performed concerts and recordings with artists including Ruggiero Ricci, Aurora Natola-Ginastera, Rainer Honeck, Noah Bendix, Wenzel Fuchs, Emmanuel Pahud, Sarah Willis, Götz Teutsch, Ivry Gitlis, Heinrich Schiff, Thomas Riebl, and singers Anna Prohaska and Christine Schäfer, among others.
She completed her piano studies at the Universities of Salzburg (Hans Leygraf) and Munich (Klaus Schilde, Hugo Steurer) with highest honors. In Salzburg, she also studied conducting (Gerhard Wimberger), Liedbegleitung (Paul Schilhawsky), and chamber music.
In 1979, she won the first prize of the „Kurt Leimer Competition“ of the Mozarteum in Salzburg.
She acquired further valuable musical inspiration from Wilhelm Kempff, Sandor Vegh, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Tatjana Nikolajewa, Vitaly Margulis, and Elisabeth Leonskaja.
Since the age of 15, her extensive concert experience—including solo appearances with renowned orchestras and chamber music groups—has taken her to many countries in Europe, the USA, Chile, Korea, China, and Japan.
From 2006 onwards, she performed several concerts with her children Saskia and Leonhard Roczek, including a trio concert tour in Japan.
She began teaching at the Mozarteum in 1982 as a lecturer. Since 2002, she has been a professor of piano and chamber music at the University Mozarteum Salzburg. Her students have won more than 50 prizes in international competitions in recent years.