Biography

Tabea Streicher was born in Berlin in 2004 and began playing the piano at the age of four. In 2011, Prof. Galina Iwanzowa accepted her as a student at the Hanns Eisler University of Music in Berlin, where she has been a junior student since 2015. For four years she has been a junior student at the Julius Stern Institute at the University of the Arts Berlin in the piano class of Prof. Christian Petersen and a student at the C.Ph.E. Bach music high school. 

She gained valuable impressions and experiences at international master classes with Eldar Nebolsin, Klaus Hellwig and repeatedly with Jacques Rouvier. She is also a scholarship holder of the International Music Academy in Liechtenstein and takes part in the intensive weeks there. 

Tabea received 1st prizes at international competitions in Germany and Hungary, the piano competition “Clavicologne” 2014 and the “VII. Chopin Competition” 2016 in Budapest. She has won several 1st prizes in the “Jugend musiziert” competition in Germany. She achieved another success in 2018 in Zwickau as the winner of the “Small Schumann Competition” with the highest number of points in the entire competition. In addition to the 1st prize in 2018 in the four-handed piano category with her brother Daniel Streicher, the duo received a special prize from the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben. They also regularly play four hands and two pianos. Tabea is the winner of the “Steinway Piano Competition” and the “C. Bechstein Piano Competition” in the piano duo category and the “International Grotrian Steinweg Competition” solo in Braunschweig 2013 and 2015. 

Tabea performed in the Berlin Philharmonic, the Konzerthaus and the Deutsche Oper Berlin. In 2018 she performed Mozart's piano concerto KV 415 with the orchestra of the Bach Music High School and the Young Orchestra of the Free University of Berlin. At the same time, she was able to gain chamber music experience in various line-ups. In summer 2020 she took part in the “Musica Mundi Festival and Course” in Belgium. 

Due to her success at the national level in 2017 in the solo competition, Tabea received a scholarship from the Carl Bechstein Foundation, for which she regularly playes concerts.