German pianist Henning Vauth serves at Marshall University in the United States as Professor of Piano and Co-Director of the Center for Wellness in the Arts. Outside of academia, he supports young musicians as 1st Vice President and Competitions Chair of the West Virginia Music Teachers Association and in other leadership roles for the Music Teachers National Association. WVMTA recognized his contributions with its two highest honors, the Distinguished Leader Award (2023), and the Teacher of the Year Award (2017). He is a member of the national music honor society Pi Kappa Lambda. 

Since his student days in Hanover, Germany, Henning’s performances have taken him around the word to venues such as the National Concert Hall in Taipei, the Konzerthaus Berlin, and Alice Tully Hall in New York City. The Chicago Tribune entitled a review of his solo recital in September 2018: “Pianist delights audience with playing, charm and wit.” Now in high demand internationally as a piano pedagogue, recent engagements include the Global Summer Institute of Music in Bad Vöslau/Vienna, Austria, the Curso de Perfeccionamiento in Medellin, Colombia, the Sicily Music Festival and Competition in Noto, Italy, the International Maestro Piano Festival and Competition in Taipei, Taiwan, the University of Music Lübeck in Germany,  the World Piano Conference in Novi Sad, Serbia, the Festival of the American Liszt Society in Greenville, South Carolina, the International Summer Academy of Music “Lüneburger Heide” in Germany, and the National Taiwan University of the Arts. 

As an advocate, Dr. Vauth serves on the Musician’s Health and Wellbeing committee of the International Society for Music Education. He has presented lectures at national conferences of the Performing Arts Medicine Association and MTNA, and co-authored articles on musicians’ health and wellness in Piano Magazine, Medical Problems of Performing Artists, Experimental Brain Research, Human Movement Science, and Movement Disorders. In 2014, he established together with theater professor Nicole Perrone the Marshall University Center for Wellness in the Arts, a collaboration between the Colleges of Health Professions and Arts and Media. 

Henning Vauth holds a Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano Performance and Literature from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. Additionally, he studied piano performance and pedagogy at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien (Hanover, Germany), the Ecole Normale de Musique “Alfred Cortot” (Paris, France), and Western Michigan University. He is grateful for his longtime teachers and mentors Nelita True, Einar Steen-Nøkleberg, Nelson Delle-Vigne Fabbri (piano) and William Porter (harpsichord) and received further inspiration in several master classes with Philippe Entremont and Jörg Demus.