Robert Koenig

Pianist Robert Koenig is well known as a chamber music player, backing many of the world's top violinists. Koenig is also active as an educator and serves as professor and head of collaborative piano at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Koenig was born November 30, 1963, and grew up in tiny Englefeld, Saskatchewan, Canada. He was mentored musically by his older brother Mark, a violinist, and when he was 15, Robert moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, for studies at the Vancouver Academy of Music. His teachers there were Lee Kum-Sing and Gwen Thompson. He lived w...