Karin Schaupp

In March 2018, ABC Classics released Schaupp's latest project titled Wayfaring, with cellist Umberto Clerici.

Schaupp performed at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Closing Ceremony.

In 2016, she and the actor Tama Matheson co-created the theatre work titled Don Juan, based on Lord Byron's poem.

In 2013, Schaupp won the Music Fellowship from the Australia Council for the Arts.

In 2010, Schaupp recorded Cradle Songs, inspired by the birth of her daughter Alexa.

Schupp released Spain in 2009 which features works by Rodrigo, Bacarisse and Castelnuovo-Tedesco. It was recorded with The Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and the choir Cantillation.

In 2007, David Williamson wrote the one-woman play Lotte's Gift for her; it is based on her own life and that of her mother and grandmother (the Lotte of the title). The performance includes both acting and playing the guitar and is regularly toured by Schaupp. Schaupp says she was initially nervous about airing the family history. "I took quite a bit of convincing, but David made me realise if we were going to tell the story, we had to tell the whole story. There are many layers: a love story, a war story, a musical story." Williamson said that despite Lotte's thwarted ambition, her story was a happy one. "One of the terrific things is that Karin's grandmother's need to perform has finally come out." Karin starred in some 150 performances of Lotte's Gift, including a four-week season at The Edinburgh Fringe in 2009.

In 2004, Schaupp performed with Ross Edwards' Concerto for Guitar and Strings, with The Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra.

In 2003 Schaupp was awarded the Music Council of Australia Freedman Fellowship in recognition of her achievements.

Schaupp's solo debut album, Soliloquy, released in 1997, was praised by UK Classical Guitar Magazine as "a pace-setting performance in all respects…".

In 1995, Schaupp performed on the Phillip Bracanin's Guitar Concerto with The Queensland Symphony Orchestra. The recording won an APRA Award at the APRA Awards of 1995.

Karin Schaupp (born 1972) is a German-born Australian classical guitarist and actress. She has won APRA Music Awards and ARIA Music Awards.

Karin Schaupp was born in Hofheim am Taunus, Germany in 1972. Her mother, Isolde Schaupp, was a teacher of guitar at the Conservatorium of Wiesbaden. Her father, a doctor, was an amateur pianist, and her aunt and grandmother were opera singers. Karin was given a half-size guitar by her grandmother when she was aged three. She started her guitar studies with her mother when she was five, and performed in public at age six. Her family, including both sets of grandparents, migrated from Germany to Australia when she was aged eight, and they have been based in Brisbane, Queensland, where Isolde Schaupp continues to teach at the University of Queensland and the University of Southern Queensland.