"She is unusually musical and sensitive -

qualities that are rather rare in our musical times." Andràs Schiff

Born into a family of musicians in Salzburg, Cornelia Herrmann studied with Imre Rohmann in Salzburg, Noel Flores in Vienna and Ferenc Rados in Budapest, and drew further inspiration from master classes with Alexander Lonquich, Murray Perahia, András Schiff and others.

In 1996 she was the youngest finalist and winner of the International J. S. Bach Competition in Leipzig, and in 1999 gained a special award at the International Mozart Competition in Salzburg. In 2001 she received the major Sponsorship Prize from the Hildegard Maschmann Foundation.

Her career has since continued to advance. Her début at the 2002 Salzburg Festival led to a further engagement the following year. In 2003 she toured Spain with the Camerata Salzburg and Sir Roger Norrington. Her concerts with the NHK Symphony Orchestra under James Judd in July 2003 brought her a contract for three CD productions with JVC. The following year, she performed with the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra under John Axelrod in the KKL Lucerne, and opened the Innsbruck concert season with the Tyrolean Symphony Orchestra under Sir Neville Marriner.

Further engagements have taken Cornelia Herrmann to venues including the Zurich Tonhalle, Victoria Hall in Geneva, Large Festival Hall in Salzburg, Brucknerhaus in Linz, Museum of Art in Tel Aviv, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, Vienna Musikverein and Vienna Konzerthaus, for performances with the Linz Bruckner Orchestra, Israel Chamber Orchestra, New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, MDR Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonie Cosmopolitaine, Tokyo Metropolitan Orchestra, Staatsphilharmonie Halle and Vienna Chamber Orchestra, under distinguished conductors such as Christian Arming, Manfred Honeck, Stefan Sanderling, Hubert Soudant, Pinchas Steinberg and Marcello Viotti. (see Collaborations)

In the 2008/09 season, Cornelia Herrmann's engagements included guest concerts in Stuttgart, Leipzig, Istanbul, Tokyo, Washington and Boston, and her début with the Toledo Symphony Orchestra conducted by Stefan Sanderling and with the Ensemble Kanazawa (Japan) conducted by Michiyoshi Inoue. In April 2009 Cornelia Herrmann has performed Schumann's Piano Concerto in the Great Hall of the Vienna Konzerthaus.

In 2010 Cornelia Herrmann will play Brahms' first Piano Concerto in d minor in Japan and Mozart's Piano Concertos  KV 271 and KV 466 in Salzburg. She is to play Chopin and Schumann Solorecitals and will work together with Christian Altenburger, Franz Bartolomey, Patrick Demenga, Christoph Genz and the Gewandhaus Quartett Leipzig. Cornelia Herrmann will appear a.o. at Musikverein Vienna, Styriarte Graz, Mozartiade Augsburg, Tokyo, Nagoya, Kapstadt, Pretoria and Mexico City.