Born into a family of musicians in Salzburg, Cornelia Herrmann studied with Imre Rohmann in Salzburg, Noel Flores in Vienna and Ferenc Rados in Budapest, and drew further inspiration from Alexander Lonquich, Murray Perahia, András Schiff and Alfred Brendel.

Cornelia Herrmann was the youngest finalist and winner of the International J. S. Bach Competition in Leipzig and gained a special award at the International Mozart Competition in Salzburg. In 2002 she gave her début at the Salzburg Festival.

Further engagements have taken Cornelia Herrmann to venues including the Zurich Tonhalle, Victoria Hall in Geneva, KKL Lucerne, Liederhalle Stuttgart, Gewandhaus Leipzig, City Hall Heidelberg, Large Festival Hall in Salzburg, Brucknerhaus in Linz, Palau de la Musica Barcelona, Auditorio Nacional Madrid, Museum of Art in Tel Aviv, Aksanat Istanbul, Sala Sao Paulo, Museo Nacional de Arte Mexiko City, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, Vienna Musikverein and Vienna Konzerthaus.

Cornelia Herrmann has performed with the Linz Bruckner Orchestra, Camerata Salzburg, Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, Israel Chamber Orchestra, New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, NHK Symphony Orchestra, MDR Symphony Orchestra, Pacific Music Festival Orchestra, Philharmonie Cosmopolitaine, Tokyo Metropolitan Orchestra, Staatsphilharmonie Halle, Vienna Chamber Orchestra and Vienna Chamber Philharmonic, under distinguished conductors such as Christian Arming, James Judd, Manfred Honeck, Michiyoshi Inoue, Fabio Luisi, Sir Neville Marriner, Sir Roger Norrington, Ola Rudner, Stefan Sanderling, Hubert Soudant, Claudius Traunfellner, Milan Turkovic, Pinchas Steinberg and Marcello Viotti.

Cornelia Herrmann is also a sought after chamber musician. Her partners are Christian Altenburger, Franz Bartolomey, Mirijam Contzen, Patrick Demenga, Christoph Genz, Michel Lethiec, Quirine Viersen, Marko Ylönen, Gewandhaus Quartet Leipzig.

She has been invited to Music Festivals such as Open Chamber Music Prussia Cove, Loisiarte, Styriarte, Attergauer Kultursommer, Grafenegg, MDR Musiksommer, Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Schwäbischer Frühling, Schloss Cappenberg, Pacific Music Festival.

Recently Cornelia Herrmann has appeared in concerts amongst others at City Hall Hong Kong, Ladies' Morning Musical Club Montreal, Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts in Chicago, International Music Festival Johannesburg, Thüringer Bachwochen, Suzhou Arts Centre, Beijing National Library Arts Center and Vienna MuTh.

Her recordings of the complete French Suites by J.S. Bach and the CD 'Italian Concerto' were released in 2013 and 2014 (CAMERATA) and have received great acclaim by the press. In early 2017 the first part of J.S. Bach's Partitas was released and was chosen as 'Tokusen' - Choice of the Month - by Record Geijutsu. Part two has been released in October 2017. Furthermore her discography comprises recordings of works by Schumann and Brahms.

In 2014 Cornelia Herrmann initiated the Music Festival 'Musiktage Hundsmarktmühle' at Lake Fuschl near Salzburg. The Festival focuses on Chamber Music with performances taking place in an old mill from the 16th century. June 2018 saw the festival's fifth edition.

"She is unusually musical and sensitive - qualities that are rather rare in our musical times."

- Andràs Schiff