Inge Du was born in 1993 in Rottweil, Germany and started to play the piano at the age of five by Prof. Schuster in Karlsruhe. From 1999 to 2004 she received piano lessons of the concert pianist Andrej Fadejew from Bielefeld. Since September, 2007 Inge Du is a young student in the piano class of Mrs. professor Barbara Szczepanska in the Robert Schumann Conservatory of Music Düsseldorf and visits at the same time the 12th class of the Humboldt high school in Düsseldorf.


From the year 2000 she began to take part in various competitions and received several 1st prices in the regional competition “Jugend musiziert“ and the 1st price at the “Thürmer” piano competition in Bochum 2003.

In 2004 she won the another first prices in the “Grotian – Steinway” Piano Competition in Braunschweig as well as in the 18th “Kleinen Schumann's” competition in Zwickau and the first Price in the 3rd Westfaelischen “Van Bremen” competition in Dortmund (2005).

In 2007 Inge Du received the 1st price in the „J.U.S.T” competition for young students in Düsseldorf (2007), 3rd price in the 1st International Rachmaninow piano competition in Darmstadt (2008), 1st price in the 3rd Rotary piano competition (2008), as well the 1st price in the 45th federal competition "Jugend musiziert" in 2008 in Saarbrucken.

In February, 2009 she achieved the 3rd price in the 2nd international Liszt competition in Weimar which was distinguished with the special price of modern music. Moreover, she earned the 1st price of the Ferdinand Trimborn subsidy award North Rhine-Westphalia in 2009.


In 2004 she gave her the first solo recital in Bielefeld. 2007 she performed the 2nd solo concert with a chamber orchestra in Shanghai. In October, 2008, she took part in the concert "soloist 2008" to present the Grieg a minor piano concert with the Brandenburg state orchestra.

In December, 2008 and January, 2009 Inge Du gave two piano recitals in Rastatt and in the Shanghai Concert Hall, whereby the second cooperated with the Shanghai media group and was therefore transferred into the radio and television.


Inge Du was appointed as a "Young Steinway Artist" by Steinway & Sons in 2009. Since June, 2009 she is a scholarship holder of the Werner Richard-Dr. Carl Dörken foundation.