Dunja Robotti was born in Brussels to Italian-German parents and received her first piano lessons from Piotr Lachert and then at the Conservatoire Royal there. At the Berlin University of the Arts, she studied piano with Professors Hans Leygraf and Georg Sava, as well as song interpretation with Aribert Reimann and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. Masterclasses with Vitalij Margulis, György Sebök, György Sàndor, and Lev Naumov complemented her training.
While still a student, Dunja Robotti was a tutor for song accompaniment at the Berlin University of the Arts. After several years of teaching cello accompaniment at the Berlin University of the Arts in the classes of Professors Wolfgang Boettcher and Jens Peter Maintz, she has been a lecturer at the Nuremberg University of Music for the string classes there since 2009. In 2016, she was appointed honorary professor. An important focus of her work is teaching and working with double bass literature. She regularly accompanies the classes of retired professor Dorin Marc in Nuremberg and professor Dominik Wagner in Würzburg.
Dunja Robotti has won several international competitions. In Paris, she won first prize in the “Claude Kahn” and “U.F.A.M.” competitions and received third prize at the International Pianists’ Meeting in Pontoise. She was also a prize winner and finalist at “Città di Marsala” in Sicily and “F. Schubert and the Music of the 20th Century” in Graz.
Since the age of ten, she has given regular concerts as a soloist, chamber musician, and song accompanist with outstanding musical partners and singers in Europe’s most renowned concert venues, including the Berlin Philharmonic, the Berlin Konzerthaus, the Cologne Philharmonic, the Munich Herkulessaal, the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, the Schubertiade in Feldkirch, the Beethovenfest in Bonn, and North and South America. Radio productions for WDR and Radio Bremen, as well as for Bayerischer Rundfunk and SFB, document her extensive work, as do various CD recordings.
As a long-standing accompanist for master classes at the Carl Flesch Academy in Baden-Baden, at Haus Marteau, at the Sawallisch Academy, and as an audition accompanist for numerous orchestras, Dunja Robotti continually proves herself at the highest level of the art of piano accompaniment.
