Celina Hoeferlin was born in Taiwan in 2010 and has lived in Mainz, Germany since she was 3 months old. At the age of 5 she started taking piano lessons and 9 months later she was awarded the 1st prize laureate and as a
youngest participant in the Mendelssohn Competition Frankfurt Rhein Main. At the age of 6 she passed the entrance examination at the Dr. Hoch’s conservatory in Frankfurt and was in the class of Prof. Stefana Chitta-Stegemann. Since summer 2019, Celina is taking courses with the Singaporean pianist and componist, Shaun Choo. In 2020, she has been accepted as a young student in the Pre-College of Mozarteum in the class of Prof. Andreas Weber.
She's won 1st Prizes in the international Henle competition, International Feurich competition, International Grotrian-Steinweg competition, Golden classic music award , Grand Prize Virtuoso Vienna and 2nd Prizes in the Steinway piano competition in Hamburg, Piano Festival Bavaria. She was invited to perform in the Carnegie Hall, Laeiszhalle Hamburg, Musikverein Vienna, Kammermusiksaal in the Berliner Philharmonie and National Theater of Braunschweig.
Besides piano, she plays flute passionately and loves to go to opera and ballet. In her free time, she likes reading and painting. Her philosophy is to share different stories with people through her music and fingers.
