Angela Gassenhuber

Pianist Angela Gassenhuber is active as an accompanist, chamber music player, and soloist. She has been heard as accompanist at many competitions and also fills this role in an educational capacity. Gassenhuber began performing chamber music in the late '80s, performing in Germany and abroad with various ensembles, including the Berlin Piano Trio and Ensemble Resonanz. Her solo collaborators included William Forman and Peter-Lukas Graf. In 1992, she made her recording debut backing several singers on an album of vocal works by Ethel Smyth. In 1995, Gassenhuber joined the faculty of the Academy of Music Hanns Eisler in Berlin as a wind instrument accompanist, remaining in that position as of the early 2020s. She returned in 2022, backing the RIAS Kammerchor Berlin on an album of the Brahms Complete Liebeslieder Walzer, Opp. 52 & 65.