Cornelis Witthoefft

Cornelis Witthoefft (born 1964 in Hamburg) is a pianist, conductor, vocal coach and academic teacher. He has performed internationally and has taught lied interpretation at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart from 2004.

Life and career Witthoefft was born in Hamburg in 1964. He first studied Protestant church music at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg, organ with Heinz Wunderlich and piano with Helena Rocha. He studied further at the Universität der Künste in Vienna, orchestral conducting with Otmar Suitner, choral conducting with Günther Theuring and correpetition with . He focused on lied interpretation with pianist Erik Werba. He graduated in 1989. A achieved a special prize of the internationalen lied competition "Franz Schubert und die Musik der Moderne" in Graz for music of the 20th century.