Kirchoff has played in many of the United States’ largest cities including New York, Boston, Miami, Chicago, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, and Pittsburgh, as well as major cities throughout Italy, Canada, and The Netherlands. This season, Kirchoff will be making his UK debut. He has appeared with orchestras throughout the U.S. performing a wide range of concerti, including the Boston premier of Charles Ives’s Emerson Concerto and the world premier of Matthew McConnell’s Concerto for Toy Piano, as well as more traditional concerti by Tschaikowsky and Chopin. He has also been a featured soloist in many music festivals including Performing Arts at CAM (Chelsea Contemporary Art Museum, New York), the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS), the Oregon Festival of American Music, the Norfolk New Music Workshop, Ives and His World, and The eXtensible Toy Piano Project.

Although only 28 years old, Kirchoff has already premiered over 100 new works and commissioned over a dozen. As a strong supporter of modern music, he has worked closely with many prominent composers including Christian Wolff, Frederic Rzewski, and Louie Andriessen. He has studied, performed, and lectured on the complete piano works of Robert Muczynski, given recital series focusing on the works of John Cage, toured internationally with the works of Frederic Rzewski, and this upcoming season will be touring with a program of self-commissioned works for piano and electronics. The co-founder of the new music ensemble "Agenda," has also appeared with the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble and the Callithumpian Consort, Boston’s premier modern music ensemble. With the latter, he has recorded John Luther Adams's For Lou Harrison on New World Records, and will appear on two other upcoming releases by Mode Records with music by Earle Browne and Christian Wolff.

As a composer, Kirchoff is equally comfortable in acoustic and electronic mediums. The composer-in-residence at the Luzerne Music Center in 2005, Kirchoff has been awarded residencies at the Banff Centre for the Arts, New York Mills, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, and Wildacres, and has been a guest composer/pianist at several Universities including the University of Missouri-Kansas City, Cal State, University of New Mexico, University of North Florida, Brigham Young University, and several others. He has received commissions from Vital Signs Ensemble, tuba player Jeffrey Meyer, organist Matthew McConnell, pianists Shiau-uen Ding and Kai Schumacher, soprano Christine Keene, and ensemble Telling Stories. Often performing his own works in recital, his music has also been performed throughout the United States by many respected musicians and ensembles including the California E.A.R. Unit, the Firewire Ensemble, mezzo-soprano Erica Brookhyser, violinists Carmel Raz and Stephanie Skor, cellist Alex Kelly, and pianists Albert Muhlbock and Mabel Kwan.

The winner of the 2006 Steinway Society Piano Competition and the 2005 John Cage Award, Kirchoff has won numerous other awards including the Silver Lake International Piano Concerto Competition, the Saint Paul Piano Teachers Association Competition, the Thursday Musical Competition, and the Saint Cloud Symphony Orchestra Young Artist Competition.

Kirchoff’s primary teachers include Dean Kramer, Stephen Drury, and Paul Wirth. He received his Bachelor of Music degree at the University of Oregon in 2003 graduating summa cum laude and then received his Master of Music degree at New England Conservatory in 2005. He has also studied composition with Michael Gandolfi and Jeffrey Stolet, and conducting with Richard Hoenich. In addition to his recordings on the New World, Bridge, and Zerx labels, Kirchoff's recording of Leo Ornstein's complete works for cello and piano will be released in early 2010, and his piano piece The Adventures of Norby will be released this year on the SEAMUS label.