After her orchestral career, the studied pianist and flautist is a successful and sought-after chamber music piano partner with extremely extensive knowledge of the repertoire. She is also a professor of chamber music at the University of Agder (Norway), lecturer, jury member of international competitions and musical director of various musical, operetta and theater productions.

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Concert tours in Europe, North America and Africa, master classes (including for the Royal Conservatory of Music Toronto, the Juilliard School of Music and the Summer Academy Mozarteum, Salzburg), recordings for radio and television as well as numerous very successful CD productions have made her internationally known.

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Her chamber music partners include solo winds and strings from the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Stuttgart, Frankfurt, Freiburg and Munich Radio Symphony Orchestras, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Royal Danish Opera, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and well-known soloists and singers singers from all over the world. Her extensive discography ranges from the works of contemporary composers, the works of contemporary women composers to recordings of works by Pavel Haas, Leo Smit, Bernhard Heiden and Paul Hindemith.

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In her many years of collaboration with the composer George Crumb and as a special connoisseur of his works, she has been invited to the most important festivals of modern music as an interpreter and teacher and has recorded his works for various radio stations.

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In the music theater she was musical director of the Frankfurt production of "Acht Frauen" in the 2005/2006 season as well as the Munich production and the German tour of "Acht Frauen" (with Maria Sebaldt and Diana Körner). She also directed the productions of "My Fair Lady" (2008) and "Irma la Douce" (2009/2010) at Komödie Frankfurt/M. as well as the revues "Kleiner Mann, was nun?" (2011), "La Cage aux folles" (own new arrangement, 2012 and 2013) and "Fisch zu viert" (2014/2015) at the Frankfurt Volkstheater.

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In the seasons 2015 to 2017 she worked as musical evening director at the Bad Vilbel Castle Festival (“Singin' in the Rain”, “Evita” and “Sunset Boulevard”). In 2014, together with the director Sylvia Hoffman, she conceived “Die Fledermaus – slightly abridged” for 5 actors with a new text.

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In the 2017/2018 season, Cordula Hacke was musical director of "Spatz und Engel" (directed by Daniel Große Boymann) at the Fritz Rémond Theater in Frankfurt.

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Cordula Hacke was also the official piano accompanist at the ARD International Music Competition, Munich, as well as the German Music Competition, Berlin, the Aeolus Competition, Düsseldorf, and the Nicolet Competition, Guangzhou/China, and international festivals in Europe and North America.

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She chairs the jury of the International Kuhlau Competition in Uelzen and taught from 2000 to 2013 as a lecturer at the Robert Schumann University of Music in Düsseldorf. Since August 2017 she has been Professor of Chamber Music at the University of Agder (Norway).

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