Having played the harpsichord since she was eight years old, Medea Bindewald belongs to the small group of 'native speakers' on her instrument. In her artistic work, she enjoys exploring areas beyond the mainstream.
Medea studied Historical Keyboard Instruments with Robert Hill in Freiburg and with Ketil Haugsand in Cologne, where she graduated 'with distinction' in 2001, followed by a post-graduate soloist exam in 2003. In the same year, she won second prize at the Deutscher Hochschulwettbewerb in Saarbrücken. She attended various masterclasses, for example with Gustav Leonhardt, and was awarded scholarships from the International Handel Academy Karlsruhe and the European Academy for Music and Performing Arts in Montepulciano.
Her concert career has taken her to numerous European music festivals and concert series, including Kultursommer Rheinland-Pfalz, Festival de Música Antiga Barcelona, Tage Alter Musik Bamberg, Schlosskonzerte Bad Krozingen, Bruchsaler Schlosskonzerte, Heidelberger Frühling, Stour Music, Horniman Museum London and Handel & Hendrix in London where she featured as 'musician of the month' in October 2014. Medea made live radio appearances, including on German radio's live programme TonArt (WDR 3). In 2016, she was Guest Editor of the British Harpsichord Society's online magazine Sounding Board. From 2003 to 2010 she taught at the University of Music and Theatre 'Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy' in Leipzig.
Medea has a special interest in the harpsichord repertoire with accompaniment for the violin, which she has been delighted to explore in partnership with the baroque violinist Nicolette Moonen (Royal Academy of Music London, artistic director of The Bach Players). This is also reflected in her two CDs, released by Coviello Classics: Jacques Duphly, Pièces de Clavecin (2014) and Jacob Kirkman, Lessons & Sonatas (2017). Both recordings have received great international acclaim, being awarded 5 de Diapason by the French magazine Diapason. The Kirkman CD got a five star rating by WDR3 (German radio) in two categories (interpretation and repertoire). An innovative crossover project - 'Music and Light Symbiosis' - in collaboration with the British artist Kate Beaugié was staged at the Mathematical Institute of the University of Oxford in 2019.