Benjamin Kobler

Born in Munich in 1973; Benjamin Kobler studied at the Musikhochschule Köln and at the Musikakademie Basel with Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Georges Pludermacher and Carmen Piazzini; he also attended Peter Eötvös’s chamber music class for new music. For ten years he worked closely with Karlheinz Stockhausen, who dedicated his last solo piano pieces “NATÜRLICHE DAUERN” to him. Since 2007 he has been the pianist of the Ensemble Musikfabrik in Cologne. He teaches contemporary piano music at the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf and at the Stockhausen-Kurse. As a soloist he has played with the Berliner Philharmoniker, the New World Symphony in Miami and the Nederlands Kamerorkest under Peter Eötvös, Simon Rattle, Reinbert de Leeuw and Myung-Whun Chung. For Cybele he recorded Feedback Studio Köln Vol. 8 – Piano Works by Klarenz Barlow (2008) and Günther Becker and the Piano (2017).