Andrea Lieberknecht was born in Augsburg, Germany. She studied under Professor Paul Meisen at the academy of music in Munich. In 1988, even before finishing her studies, she became the soloist flute player with the Munich Radio Orchestra. Three years later she changed to the same position in the West German Radio Symphony Orchestra in Cologne, where she continued until 2002. She has won many national and international competitions: as a soloist she has won the international Flute competition "Prager Frühling" in 1991 and the International Flute Competition Kobe in 1993. With the ARCIS Quintet and in Duo pianist Jan Philip Schulze she received first and second prizes in the German Music Competition in 1996, the ARD-Competition and the international chamber music competitions in Colmar, Trapani and Belgrad.

Since then, recitals, solo concerts and chamber music concerts with well-known musicians, have taken her around the world. She has played solo concerts and chamber music concerts at international festivals such as The Ansbacher Bachwochen, The Rheingaufestival, The Schleswig-Holstein-Festival, festivals in Iida and Hamamatsu in Japan, and The Glasbeni September Maribor in Slovenia. Moreover, during the years 1993 to 1996, she had been the solo flute player at The Richard-Wagner-Festival in Bayreuth. She is regularly invited to the International Music Festival “Spannungen-Musik im Kraftwerk Heimbach” of the world renowned pianist Lars Vogt. She had been guest artist in the chambermusic Festival of Leif Ove Andsnes in Norway. Clarinetist Sabine Meyer regularly invites her for chambermusic concerts such as Luzern Festival, Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, International Georges Enesco Festival Bukarest, niedersächsische Musiktage and others. She has played flute concerts with the Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra, the German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, the Munich Symphonists, and many others. She played the world premieres of the double concertos of the Norwegian composer Olav Berg and the German Bernd Franke, together with Dag Jensen, Bassoon, Christian Wetzel, Oboe and the Hannover Radio Orchestra and Darmstadt Philharmonic Orchestra. Numerous compact disc recordings with solo and chamber music, some of them prize-winning, document her versatile artistic activity.

She is also a passionate teacher: She taught at the academy of music in Cologne from 1996 to 1999 and had been a flute professor at the academy of music in Hannover until 2011, since then at the University for Music and Performing Arts in Munich. Her students are winners of prestigious international flute competitions such as Kobe Flute Competition, ARD Competition, concours de Geneve and also have leading positions in world renowned orchestras like Wiener Philharmoniker, BRSO (Bavarian Braodcasting Symphony Orchestra), NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra and others.