Christopher Hinterhuber was born in 1973 in the Austrian town of Klagenfurt and studied with Axel Papenberg, Rudolf Kehrer and Heinz Medjimorec at the University for Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. He acquired additional artistic skills from Lazar Berman, Alexander Longquich and Louis Lortie at the Accademia Pianistica in Imola as well as in master-classes from Oleg Maisenberg and Murray Perahia.

His numerous prizes and awards in international competitions include success in the Città di Senigallia (Italy), the J.S.Bach Competition in Leipzig (including a special prize for the best interpretation of a Mozart Piano Concerto), the J.S.Bach Competition in Saarbrücken, the Pretoria Unisa International Piano Competition in South Africa, the Schumann Prize in the Geza Anda Competition in Zurich and the Second Prize and Klemens-Kramert Special Prize at the 11th International Beethoven Competition in Vienna.

He is a regular guest at the Ruhr Piano Festival, Styriarte Graz, Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, Mondseetage, Mozartwoche Salzburg, Prague Autumn and many more. In the year 2000 his hands and recordings by Schubert, Schönberg and Rachmaninov were featured in the Austrian-French film La pianiste by Michael Haneke, which won the Grand Prix of the Jury at the 2001 Cannes Festival.

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