Andrea Lieberknecht was born in Augsburg (Germany). She studied with Professor Paul Meisen at the Munich Academy of Music. In 1988, even before finishing her studies, she became principal flutist of the Munich Radio Orchestra. Three years later, she assumed the same position in the West German Radio Symphony Orchestra in Cologne, where she remained until 2002. She has won numerous national and international competitions: as a soloist, she won first prize at the Prague Spring International Flute Competition in 1991 and at the Kobe International Flute Competition in 1993. With the ARCIS Quintet and in duo with pianist Jan Philip Schulze, she received first and second prizes at the German Music Competition in 1996, as well as at the ARD Competition and at the international chamber music competitions in Colmar, Trapani, and Belgrade.
Since then, she has given recitals, concerts as a soloist, and chamber music performances with renowned musicians around the world. She has participated in international festivals such as Ansbacher Bachwochen, Rheingaufestival, Schleswig-Holstein-Festival, and festivals in Iida and Hamamatsu in Japan, as well as Glasbeni September Maribor in Slovenia. In addition, between 1993 and 1996, she was principal flutist at the Richard Wagner Festival in Bayreuth. She is regularly invited to the Spannungen-Musik im Kraftwerk Heimbach International Music Festival by the prestigious pianist Lars Vogt. She has also been a guest artist at the Leif Ove Andsnes Chamber Music Festival in Norway. The clarinetist Sabine Meyer regularly calls on her for chamber music concerts at events such as the Lucerne Festival, the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, the Georges Enesco International Festival in Bucharest, Niedersächsische Musiktage, among others. She has performed as a soloist with the Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra, the German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, the Munich Symphony Orchestra, and many other groups. She has premiered double concertos by the Norwegian composer Olav Berg and the German composer Bernd Franke, alongside Dag Jensen (bassoon) and Christian Wetzel (oboe), with the Hanover Radio Orchestra and the Darmstadt Philharmonic. Her extensive and versatile artistic activity is documented in numerous recordings of solo and chamber music, some of which have won awards.
In addition, she is a passionate teacher. She taught at the Cologne Academy of Music between 1996 and 1999 and was a flute professor at the Hanover Academy of Music until 2011. Since then, she has been teaching at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich. Her students have won prestigious international flute competitions such as the Kobe Competition, the ARD Competition, and the Concours de Genève, in addition to holding prominent positions in world-renowned orchestras such as the Vienna Philharmonic, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, among others.