Falko Steinbach from Leverkusen ( Germany) has an extended international performance career with solo performances and recordings in the United States, Europe and Asia. He is regularly invited as a soloist, clinician and adjudicator at important International Music Festivals, e.g. Tage Alter und Neuer Musik (Regensburg), New Opera Festival (Rome), Liszt Festival in Florida, International Val Tidone Competition and Festival (Italy), Primer Concurso Nacional De Piano - Claudio Herrera in Mexico, Four Corners Competition in Colorado and the International Conference on Piano Musical Arts and Pedagogy in Taiwan, to name only a few.

Dr. Steinbach's repertory ranges from Bach to contemporary classical music. For several years he was chair of "Klang Koeln", an association for contemporary music in Germany. Because new music is a significant interest for him, he frequently presents new works to audiences in lecture concerts. Also, Mr. Steinbach has premiered numerous contemporary works, some of which have been dedicated to him. Among the composers represented in Mr. Steinbach's contemporary repertoire are Paul Dessau, Thomas Reiner, Stefan Thomas, Kurt Schwaen, Oliver Trötschel, Tilo Medek, M.C.Redel, Chris Shultis and others. Prof. Steinbach has also composed many works for piano, chamber music and music for voice, choires and ensembles.

Mr. Steinbach, who is a Steinway artist has made 11 compact disc recordings as well as videos and has appeared widely on German and US radio and television. The proceeds from one of the CDs - with works of Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin and Bartók - go to the Casa Alianza-Children's Aid of Guatemala and Amnesty International. The proceeds of his CD "Humanity Classics" with piano concertos from Mozart and Schnittke go to a home for disabled women in Bulgaria. On his CD "six take", he performs works by renowned contemporary German composers and also his own composition “Slapstick Variationen” for two pianos.

Besides a DAAD scholarship of the German government for Advanced Studies in England he received a grant from the "Stiftung Kunst und Kultur" of the state Northrhine Westfalia to produce two compact discs and most recently a grant from the University of New Mexico to translate his book, "Klaviertechnisches Kompendium" into the English language.

Some of the conducters he worked with are Stefano Vignati, (Rome), Michael Willens (Cologne), Hraitschko Christof (Sofia), Juerg Henneberger (Zuerich), Herbert Ermert (Siegen), Guillermo Figueroa, Eric Rombach and Jorge Perez – Gomez (USA).

Born in Aachen, Mr. Steinbach made his concert debut at the age of twelve and received a first prize in the piano competition "Jugend Musiziert" in Bergisch-Gladbach when he was 17, studying with Grete Selle in Leverkusen. He was a Special Student at the Music Conservatory of Cologne and studied with Prof. Tiny Wirtz, graduated summa cum laude and completed his solostudies with a doctorate. In addition to this, he pursued advanced studies in solo performance at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London with Craig Sheppard.

Falko Steinbach has taken international master classes in Switzerland, Austria, England and Germany with Prof.Tatjana Nikolajewa and Peter Feuchtwanger, as well as Lied accompaniment with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. After being a head of the keyboard area at the University of Cologne, since August 1999, Prof. Steinbach is head of the piano area of the music department at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque and leads the piano performance studio for solo studies. Several of his students won prizes and were finalists in state, national and international competitions in New Mexico, Germany and Italy.