The Pianist Katharina Sellheim shows a remarkable musical versatility. She gets engaged as soloist, chamber musician and often accompanies lied singers. She gives recitals in the important musical centres of Europe, such as Vienna, Berlin and Paris and concerts worldwide - amongst others in the cities of Wuhan and Hefei in China. She is a regularly guest at international festivals like the "Beethoven-Fest" in Bonn in the years 2007, 2008 and 2009, the Gustav Mahler Music Weeks in Toblach and the Braunschweig Classix Festival.
She taught master classes in China, and in 2006 she accepted the "Barenboim-Said Foundation's" invitation to give a series of guest lectures in Ramallah, Jerusalem and other cities in Palestine and Israel.
Katharina Sellheim is partner of renowned artists, for example members of the Berlin and Munich Philharmonic Orchestras and singers of the Hamburg State Opera. In 2004 as well as in 2005 she was engaged by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau to accompany his master classes' concerts of Mörike- and Goethe lieder by Hugo Wolf in Sankt Paul.
Together with her brother Konstantin Sellheim, outstanding violist and member of the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, she regularly plays concerts as the "Duo Sellheim". Furthermore, she founded in 2009 the "Trio Mondial".
Her performances were broadcasted live by the German TV and radio station NDR and also recorded by SWR and HR.
During her university studies, Katharina Sellheim was rewarded several prizes and awards. She was scholarship holder of the "Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes" and repeated scholarship holder of the "Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienstes" as well as first laureate of the "Gedok music competition". Additionally, she is scholarship holder of the "FJS- Gesellschaft" as chamber musician and accompanyist of lieder. To round off her range of scholarships, she was awarded a scholarship by the "Richard-Wagner-Verband" in 2005.
Katharina Sellheim received her musical education with Prof. Karl-Heinz Kämmerling, Prof. Markus Becker and Germaine Mounier in Hannover and Paris in the courses "Künstlerische Ausbildung", "Soloklasse" and "Kammermusik" (artistic education, solo class and chamber music). Important stimuli were given by Eckart Sellheim and Paul Badura-Skoda.