Markus Groh studied with Professor Konrad Richter at the Stuttgart Conservatory and Professor Hans Leygraf at the Berlin Academy of the Arts. During this time he won numerous international prizes at international competitions: these include First Prize at the Artur Schnabel Competition in Berlin in1990; the Finalist´s Prize at Santander in 1992; and the Grand Prix at the German Music Competition in Bonn in 1993. Since winning the Queen Elisabeth Competition in 1995 (the first German pianist to do so), Markus Groh has confirmed his position as one of the leading pianists of his generation.
Highlights in the past two seasons included two tours in Japan with members of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, followed by debuts with the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and at the festivals at Ruhr, Bad Kissingen, Rheingau, Oslo and Schleswig-Holstein. Highly acclaimed performances included a tour with the Liège Philharmonic and a recital tour of the main German venues in Munich, Leipzig, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Berlin, Zürich, Paris and London. In January 2001 he joined the Belgian National Orchestra under Yuri Simonov for a highly successful German tour.
In May 2001, Markus Groh gave his highly acclaimed debut with the London Symphony Orchestra under Kent Nagano and he also performed under Nagano with the Deutsches Symphony Orchestra, Berlin, in the Berlin Philharmonie, Cologne Philharmonie and the Jahrhunderthalle Frankfurt in January 2002. His next Japanese tour in June 2002 includes orchestra performances as well as ten concerts with Akiko Suwanai at major venues.
Markus Groh is a frequent guest at major international music festivals such as Schleswig-Holstein and Bad Kissingen festivals, the Rheingau festival, the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, the Oslo chamber music festival and the Lockenhaus festival. He performs with the Vogler Quartet, Petersen Quartet, Alban Gerhardt, Leonidas Kavakos, Boris Pergamenschikow, Akiko Suwanai and Peter Schreier.
Markus Groh´s frequent concert engagements have been accompanied by radio and television recordings in Germany, Spain, Belgium, Holland, France and Japan (NHK) and the United States (NPR). His debut recordings for René Gailly Productions and Harmonia Mundi feature works of Brahms and Liszt.