Born in Cologne, the pianist Markus Hadulla began his studies in the Lieder class of Mitsuko Shirai and Hartmut Höll in Karlsruhe, continuing at the Paris Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique and subsequently at Yale with the Hungarian pianist Peter Frankl. He won the prize for best Lieder accompanist at the Seventh International Hugo Wolf Competition in Stuttgart in 1994 and was invited by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau to join his Lieder class in Berlin. Other influences on his musical development were Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Ralf Gothóni.

He has collaborated with a number of well-known singers, vocal ensembles, writers and actors, as well as with instrumentalists and chamber ensembles, and has appeared at venues and maj...