Caroline Doerge
piano
Caroline Doerge was born in Berlin to the German violonist Albin Doerge and his wife Hongza Choe Doerge, a Korean soprano. She began to study the piano at the age of five.
She later studied at the Julius-Stern-Institut and Hochschule der Kunste in Berlin with Laszlo Simon. She was a student of Karl Heinz Kaemmerling at the Hochschule fur Musik und Theater in Hannover. She studied with Homero Francesch at the Musikhochschule in Zurich, and with Franco Scala at the Accademia Pianistica in Imola. She has taken masterclasses with Sergei Dorenski and Lev Naumov.
Awards she has received include several first prizes at Steinway Competitions in Berlin and Hamburg, between 1979 and 1985, and a prize at the Third European Chopin Competition in Darmstadt in 1989.
Caroline performed in top halls such as the Konzerthaus Berlin, Philharmonie Berlin, the Sala Sinfonica in Castellon and in San Sebastian (Spain), the Seoul Arts Center, Bunkakaikan Hall (Tokyo), the Teatro Regio in Turin, and LAC in Lugano.
She collaborated as soloist with the Berliner Sinfonie-Orchester, the Orchestra of La Scala in Milan, the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, the Hungarian Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestra del Teatro Comunale Bologna, the Korean Symphony Orchestra, the Solisti di Zagreb, the State Orchestra of Romania, the Lubin Philharmonic Orchestra, the Salzburger Kammerorchester, the Vienna Classical Players, the Orchestra Cantelli di Milano, the Orchestra Giovanile del Piemonte, the European Union Chamber Orchestra, and Symphonisches Orchester Berlin.
She has been invited by Maestro Claudio Abbado at the Berliner Festwochen and the Young Euro Classic Festival in Davos.
She has given recitals at the Teatro Comunale in Reggio Emilia, Lingotto, the Teatro Regio in Turin, the Turin Conservatoire, the Sala Mozart in Bologna, the Kammermusiksaal of the Philharmonie in Berlin, the Villa Wahnfried in Bayreuth, and in the Auditorium of the Lugano Conservatoire, among other European venues.
Caroline Doerge performs chamber music with the members of the Berliner Philharmoniker, Wiener Philharmoniker, National Italian Radio Orchestra, Wiener Symphoniker, and of the Teatro alla Scala di Milano.
