Dirk Mommertz, originally a violinist, studied in Karlsruhe, Frankfurt, Paris and Cologne. He is a multiple international award-winning pianist and member of the renowned Fauré Quartet, which performs worldwide in the most important concert halls such as London’s Wigmore Hall, the Berlin Philharmonie, the Teatro Colon Buenos Aires, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Tonhalle Zurich, Tokyo, Paris and New York. Their award-winning recordings on Deutsche Grammophon and Sony Classical have highlighted the quartet as a pioneering ensemble at home in both classical and experimental contemporary repertoire. Dirk Mommertz has performed as a soloist with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, the Duisburg Philharmonic and the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, among others. From 2000 to 2005, Dirk Mommertz was a lecturer in piano at the Karlsruhe University of Music. After 2005, he was Professor of Chamber Music at the conservatories in Essen and Nuremberg before being appointed Head of the Chamber Music Department at the University of Music and Theatre in Munich in 2015, where he has been Vice President since 2019. His other teaching activities include public masterclasses all over the world. His students have won prizes at the ARD Competition, the International Chamber Music Competition in Melbourne, the Concours Maria Canals Barcelona, Mendelssohn Competition Berlin, Concours international de Chambre de Lyon, Parkhouse Award London, German Music Competition, European Chamber Music Competition, Schubert und die Moderne Graz, Beethoven Competition Bonn, Brahms Competition Pörtschach, Haydn Competition Vienna and many others.