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Kyra Steckeweh was born in 1984 in Bonn, Germany. She received her first piano lessons in elementary school and was able to celebrate her first successes at the European competition "Jugend musiziert". She later studied piano and instrumental pedagogy at the Freiburg University of Music and at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. She completed her studies in Freiburg in 2011. In 2009/10 she also completed her first state examination in school music and history at the Freiburg University of Music and the University of Freiburg.
As a concert pianist and with her discography, Steckeweh is particularly interested in the music of lesser-known female composers. She is committed to making women's music visible as part of our cultural heritage. With this in mind, in 2018 she and filmmaker Tim van Beveren produced "Komponistinnen" ("Women Composers") a documentary about Fanny Hensel, Emilie Mayer, Lili Boulanger, and Mel Bonis, who fought for their place in the male-dominated 19th-century musical world. The film was honored at the New York Movie Awards and received the 2020 Opus Classic Award in the audiovisual music production category. In 2019, Steckeweh also recorded a double album of piano works by the four women composers.
Again with Tim van Beveren, Kyra Steckeweh realized the documentary "DORA - Flucht in die Musik" ("DORA – Escape Into Music", 2022) about the once famous but now largely forgotten Croatian composer Dora Pejačević (1885-1923).