Born in Freiburg im Breisgau, Volkamer studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Mannheim with Paul Dan and Robert Benz as well as at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with Hans Petermandl and at the Juilliard School of Music with Martin Canin.
She also attended master classes with Karl-Heinz Kämmerling, Rudolf Kehrer, Michael Ponti, Yevgeny Malinin, Pavel Gililov and Hans Leygraf.
As a soloist, she has performed at venues including the Prinzregententheater Munich, the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Festspielhaus Lucerne, the Romanian Athenaeum and the Krakow State Opera.
[3] Powerful, unsophisticated, straightforward, Annette Volkamer mastered the solo part of the fourth piano concerto as the ideal keyboard partner of the Kapellmeister.
Both interpreted it as an image of a rugged landscape of the soul, as an excitingly modern, groundbreakingly antithetical composition: no contrast was smoothed out, every syncopation, every sforzato was uncompromisingly savoured, the moods changed abruptly.