When Ada Aria Rückschloss took her first piano lessons at the age of three, she was already an enthusiastic listener to music. She was only eight when she first took lessons from celebrated professors. She studied at the colleges of music (MHS) in Karlsruhe (as a junior student), Stuttgart and Würzburg and attended numerous master classes. Her teachers include such leading figures as Bernd Glemser, Sontraud Speidel, Friedemann Rieger, Kristian Bezuidenhout, the duo Hans-Peter and Volker Stenzl, and Arnulf von Arnim. Ada Aria has won over 100 prizes at national and international competitions. Concert tours have taken her throughout Europe and to the USA.