Christian A. Pohl completed his piano studies at the University of Music in Freiburg with Felix Gottlieb, a student of Alexander Goldenweiser and Emil Gilels. During his youth, he was taught by Markus Stange, a student of Jürgen Uhde, and attended masterclasses with Vitaly Margulis and Seymour Bernstein.

He performs both as a soloist and in chamber music ensembles. His chamber music partners have included Felix Gottlieb, Christoph Henkel, Daishin Kashimoto and Petr Popelka.

Christian A. Pohl taught at the music academies in Freiburg and Stuttgart before being appointed professor of piano and piano methodology at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University of Music and Theatre in Leipzig in 2009 at the age of 34. He regularly serves as a juror at national and international music competitions, including the Dvorak, Kronberg, Schumann, Weber and Bach competitions. He was director of the International Mendelssohn Academy Leipzig for twelve years and, since 2021, has been president of IKAM, the International Piano Academy Murrhardt, which he founded together with Felix Gottlieb in 2001.

Concerts, masterclasses and seminars take him to numerous German cities as well as Austria, France, Spain, Czechia, Israel, Egypt, China, Japan and Switzerland. In recent years, he has accepted invitations to Munich, Stuttgart, Karlsruhe, Frankfurt, Hanover, Hamburg, Jena, Dresden, Zwickau, Chemnitz, Bern, Vienna, Salzburg, Innsbruck, Madrid, Bilbao, Zaragoza, Jerusalem, Tokyo, Osaka, Beijing, Shanghai and Wuhan, including such renowned institutions as the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, the Mozarteum Salzburg, the Jerusalem Music Academy and the Central Conservatory Beijing.

His students regularly win prizes at national and international piano competitions, including the International Piano Competitions in Epinal (silver medal), Thalberg (gold medal) and Istanbul (gold medal). He is responsible for the instruments, was a member of the admissions committee and the senate, and, as dean of studies, headed the piano/conducting department at the Leipzig University of Music and Theatre for six years. In 2014, he was nominated for the Saxon Teaching Award.

In addition to his artistic and pedagogical activities, Christian A. Pohl is also an author. His publications have appeared with Schott/Mainz, Breitkopf & Härtel/Wiesbaden and HudsonRiverPress/New York. In spring 2022, after 20 years of development, his 400-page book «Klaviermethodik» (Piano Methodology) was published by Edition Peters. Since January 2023, «Digitale Klaviermethodik» (Digital Piano Methodology) has been available on the internet, a globally unique training programme in the field of piano methodology developed by Christian A. Pohl. In over 100 instructional videos, the basics of artistic work on the piano are presented in unprecedented clarity and depth in a practical manner.