Till Fellner's international career began in 1993 with the 1st prize at the renowned Concours Clara Haskil in Vevey (Switzerland). Since then, he has been a sought-after guest at the major orchestras and the major music centers of Europe, the USA, and Japan, as well as at numerous festivals.
　
As soloist he performs with orchestras such as the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Koninklijk Concertgebouworkest Amsterdam, New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and NHK Symphony Orchestra.
　
Fellner has collaborated with Claudio Abbado, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Herbert Blomstedt, Semyon Bychkov, Christoph von Dohnányi, Christoph Eschenbach, Bernard Haitink, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Manfred Honeck, Sir Charles Mackerras, Sir Neville Marriner, Kurt Masur, Kent Nagano, Jonathan Nott, Kirill Petrenko, and Hans Zender, among many others.
　
In the field of chamber music, Fellner regularly collaborates with violinist Viviane Hagner, tenor Mark Padmore, and the Belcea Quartet. In 2023 he toured Japan with German mezzo-soprano Anna Lucia Richter.
　
In recent years, Fellner has dedicated himself to two milestones of the piano repertoire: the Well-Tempered Clavier of Johann Sebastian Bach and the 32 piano sonatas of Ludwig van Beethoven. He performed the Beethoven cycle from 2008 to 2010 in New York, Washington, Tokyo, London, Paris, and Vienna. Fellner has also premiered works by Kit Armstrong, Harrison Birtwistle, Thomas Larcher, Alexander Stankovski, and Hans Zender.
　
The ECM label, for whom Fellner is an exclusive recording artist, has released the First Book of the Well-Tempered Clavier and the Two & Three-Part Inventions of J.S. Bach, Beethoven’s Piano Concertos Nos. 4 & 5 with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra and Kent Nagano, chamber music by Harrison Birtwistle, and in 2018 the CD “Till Fellner In Concert” with live recordings of works by Liszt and Beethoven. In 2016 Alpha Classics released his recording of the Brahms Piano Quintet with the Belcea Quartet, which received the “Diapason d'Or de l’Année.”
　
In his native Vienna, Fellner studied with Helene Sedo-Stadler before going on to study privately with Alfred Brendel, Meira Farkas, Oleg Maisenberg, and Claus-Christian Schuster.
　
Fellner teaches at the Zurich University of the Arts as well as at the University of Art in Graz.
　
In 2019 he was jury president at the 62nd Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition in Bolzano.
　
This is his first appearance at PMF.