Thomas Hoppe has developed a strong reputation as an exceptional collaborative pianist.

He performs frequently with instrumentalists and singers in the U.S. and in Europe and maintains a demanding performance schedule. During the past season, he performed several times in Carnegie's Weill Recital Hall, at Alice Tully Hall, Temple Emanu-El and the Bohemians Musician Club New York, as well as numerous performances at the Juilliard School of Music. He appeared in Europe at the Congress Center in Hamburg and the Kulturzentrum Bremen and at Tsuda Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

Mr. Hoppe has played solo and chamber music recitals in Germany, England, France, Switzerland, Italy and the U.S., and has recorded for radio and television. He has been soloist with various orchestras, including the Ecuador National Symphony with whom he performed Brahms' 1st piano concerto in Quito, Ecuador, the Mainzer Kammerorchester on a tour of France, and the University of Louisville Symphony as a two-time winner of its concerto competition.

He has extensive experience in vocal chamber music and as orchestral pianist (under the direction of David Zinman, Robert Spano and James DePreist), has worked as vocal coach at the Aspen Opera Theater (under James Conlon and Julius Rudel), and is staff accompanist for the Metropolitan Opera Guild in New York City. The holder of numerous prizes and awards, Mr. Hoppe was sponsored by Sister Cities International and German radio station SWF III and was awarded full fellowships to the Aspen Music Festival in four consecutive years. He has played in master classes for Misha Dichter and Vladimir Feltsmann (solo), Warren Jones, Marylin Horne, Menahem Pressler, Shirley Verrett, and Susanne Mentzer (collaborative), and has performed chamber music under the direction of Leon Fleisher and Itzhak Perlman. Recently Thomas Hoppe worked as staff accompanist at the Leonard Rose International Cello Competition, completed highly successful tours of Texas, Louisiana, and Alabama with singers under the auspices of the Piatigorsky Foundation and performed a concert with extraordinary mezzo-soprano Makiko Narumi at Tsuda Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

Upcoming engagements during the season 2001/02 include concerts in London, New York City, Berlin, Connecticut, Texas, Michigan and others. In September 2002 he will be working as staff accompanist at the ARD International Music Competition in Munich. During the summer Thomas Hoppe will be staff accompanist at the Perlman Music Festival at the invitation of Itzhak Perlman, whose entire violin studio Hoppe accompanies at Juilliard.

A native of Germany, Thomas Hoppe received early training from Agathe Wanek at the Peter-Cornelius-Conservatory in Mainz. He came to the U.S. in 1993 to study with Maestro Lee Luvisi, the former assistant of Rudolf Serkin. The first recipient of the Samuel Sanders Memorial Award at the Juilliard School of Music, he finished his graduate studies in May 2001 with a diploma in collaborative arts. He continues his affiliation with the Juilliard School as staff accompanist, and works for the studios of Dorothy Delay, Joel Krosnick, Carol Wincenc and many others.