Frederike Möller

Pianist, musicologist and arts manager in Düsseldorf; she plays piano and toy piano. She had her first piano lessons at the age of five and studied piano, arts management, musicology and philosophy in Munich, Cologne, Düsseldorf and Warsaw. In 2018 she received her doctorate from the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München with a thesis on madness in Wolfgang Rihm’s music theatre; the book “Wahn-Sinn im Musiktheater Wolfgang Rihms” was published by Königshausen & Neumann in 2021, with an introductory note by Wolfgang Rihm. In 2015 she received the Förderpreis für Musik der Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf. She founded the Düsseldorfer ToyPiano Festival, and since October 2023 she has been artistic director (Intendantin) of the Internationales Düsseldorfer Orgelfestival (IDO). She performs regularly with the notabu.ensemble neue musik at the Tonhalle Düsseldorf and in a piano duo with Yukiko Fujieda.