Background
He was born 1961 in Sonthofen in the Oberallgäu region of the Bavarian Alps and studied with Klaus Schilde and Karl Hermann Mrongovius in Munich, then with Jacob Lateiner at the Juilliard School New York, where he received his master"s degree - and later with Peter Feuchtwanger in London.
Career
He was professor for piano from 1993 to 2004 at the Hochschule fuer Musik in Cologne, until 2009 at the Hochschule Hanns Eisler in Berlin—since autumn 2009 at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand until February 2014 and from March 2014 at the Barratt Due Institute of Music in Oslo, Norway. Foreign many years, Michael Endres was the pianist to the late baritone Hermann Prey.