Thomas Hoppe has developed a strong reputation as an exceptional pianist and collaborative artist.           

He performs frequently with instrumentalists and singers in the U.S. and in Europe and has concertized with Itzhak Perlman, Joshua Bell, Feng Ning, Stefan Milenkovich, Antje Weithaas, Amit Peled and many others at such venues as Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall in New York City, Louvre Paris, Tsuda and Oji Hall Tokyo and the Berlin Philarmonic.                     

As pianist of the ATOS Trio he performs up to 50 concerts a season and has recorded for radio and television. Recipients of the 3rd Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Award, the trio was also 1st Prize winners at competitions such as the Deutsche Musikwettbewerb 2004, the Schubert Competition in Graz 2006 and the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition 2007.

Hoppe has extensive experience as orchestral pianist and as vocal coach (Aspen Opera Theater, Metropolitan Opera Guild, the Juilliard School) and works as official accompanist for many international competitions such as Queen Elizabeth Brussels, Joseph Joachim Hannover, Feuermann Berlin and ARD Munich.

He served as faculty member and staff accompanist at the Perlman Music Program at the invitation of violinist Itzhak Perlman, whose entire studio Hoppe accompanied at Juilliard for many years.                                    

A native of Germany , Thomas Hoppe studied with Agathe Wanek in Mainz. In 1993, he came to the U.S. to study with Lee Luvisi, under whose guidance he remained for five years.  The first recipient of the Samuel Sanders Memorial Award at the Juilliard School of Music, he finished his graduate studies in 2001 with a diploma in collaborative arts and worked full-time for the studio of Dorothy Delay, the legendary violin pedagogue. Since October 2002 he divides his time between New York City and Berlin, Germany where he is on the faculty of the Universität der Künste.