Internationally known pianist, organist and conductor. Teaching activity at many universities, colleges and conservatories in Europe, USA, Mexico and Asia. Currently head of the "keyboard department" at the private conservatory "Friedrich Gulda School of Music Vienna" and lectures at the "Jam Music Lab University Vienna", artistic director of festivals, concert series, master classes and orchestras in Austria and abroad, founder and director of the "A·M·A" (Altenburg Music Academy), jury member and jury president at international music competitions, popular YouTube channel: "Robert Lehrbaumer - About music".
Born in Vienna, Robert Lehrbaumer started his career at the age of 9 when he made his appearance as a pianist in Austria, Germany and Switzerland. Since then, concert tours have brought him to almost all European countries and capitals, to North, Central and South America, to the Near East, South-East Asia, Korea, and Japan, in famous locations from Viennas Musikverein und Konzerthaus to New York's Carnegie-Hall and Tokyo's Suntory Hall and Casals Hall.
Robert Lehrbaumer began to study piano at the age of six. From 8 to 13 he was a member of the Mozart Boys Choir. Two years later, he entered the Vienna University of Music and Dramatic Art to study piano, organ, and conducting. Prizes in numerous competitions, especially Geneva 1985, and scholarships by Bösendorfer and the Alban Berg Stiftung distinguished the young interpreter.
When he was 11, he had his first appearance as a soloist with orchestras and has since performed concerts with the Vienna Philharmonic, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Vienna Radio Symphonic Orchestra, the Bruckner Orchestra/Linz the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, the Camerata Academica Salzburg, the Vienna Chamber Orchestra and with many foreign orchestras under the baton of conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Yehudi Menuhin, Sandor Végh, André Previn, Leopold Hager....
He cultivates musical partnerships with Wolfgang Schneiderhan, Anton Dermota, Walter Berry, Angelika Kirchschlager, Bo Skovhus, Friedrich Gulda, Rudolf Schock, Philippe Entremont and others. Robert Lehrbaumer pursued his careers as an organist and as a pianist simultaneously. His special piano-organ-recitals, also with orchestras, are very popular events for which he gets rave reviews.
Robert Lehrbaumer has participated in numerous festivals such as the Vienna Festival, Salzburg Festival, Brucknerfest/Linz, Carinthian Summer/Ossiach, Bregenz Spring, Luzern Music Festival, the Nuremberg Organ-Week, Slovakia Spring-Festival, Schubert-Festival/Washington D.C., Festival Cervantino/ Mexico. At the age of 25, he played a solo-recital in the cycle "Master-Soloists" in the Vienna Konzerthaus, together with Abbado, Sinopoli, Previn, Caballe, Brendel.
In addition, Robert Lehrbaumer has made recordings for radio and TV stations, LP and CD; he has starred in films and videos. President of the international piano competition "Zagreb 2006". When conducting Robert Lehrbaumer is known also performing both as conductor and pianist in works of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Gershwin.
Awarded the title "Professor", Grand decoration of Honor of Burgenland and Lower Austria. Most recently highest cultural award of the provincial capital of St. Pölten: "Johann Prandtauer-Award".
is an icon of vocal training. Her singing studio in Vienna has produced world-class singers such as Elina Garanca, Lilli Paasikivi, Topi Lehtipuu, Martin Achrainer, Johanna Russanen and Mirko Roschkowski, some of whom she is still coaching today.
She is frequently called upon by opera houses as a special coach, for example for longer periods for the vocal soloists of the Latvian and Finnish National Operas.
Irina Gavrilovici was born in Romania. She studied piano and singing in Bucharest. Her singing teacher, Ludmila Boicescu Grosowscaja, introduced her to the specific Italian school of singing.
She was a lecturer at the University of Music in Bucharest before emigrating to Austria in 1986.
She also is working as a lecturer, e.g. at the International Congress of Voice Teachers in Helsinki, where she gave illustrative lessons to a large audience of experts, including Birgit Nilsson.
Irina Gavrilovici has given master classes in Rome, Sofia, Saarbrücken, Kangasniemi and Turku (Finland), Riga and Vienspils (Latvia), Irkutsk (Russia) and also in the Academia Sighisoara (Romania) and acts as a jury member at international singing competitions.
Teaching languages: German, English, French, Italian, Russian and Romanian.
A Steinway Artist, pianist Min Kwon is in demand around the world as a soloist, chamber musician and teacher. Her professional engagements have taken her to over 60 countries on 7 continents and to all 50 states in the US, including such venues as Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall and Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, the United Nations in New York, Orchestra Hall in Chicago, the Academy of Music in Philadelphia, and to major venues in Seoul, London, Vienna, Freiburg, Interlaken, Prague, Sydney, and to the festivals of Aspen, Ravinia, Cape & Islands, Caramoor (US), Colmar (France), Salzburg and AMA (Altenburg), and Kuhmo (Finland).
Highlights of her recent seasons include chamber music performances with ten principals of the Philadelphia Orchestra, a tour and recording of Schubert Four Hand recital with Viennese pianist Robert Lehrbaumer, and world premiere of three newly commissioned works for her in New York, Florida, and Serbia.
Since her North American debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1987 in Prokofiev Concerto No. 3 Ms. Kwon has appeared worldwide in over 20 concerti performing as soloist under James Conlon, Alan Gilbert, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski among others and, as a chamber musician, performed with the principal players of New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Chicago Symphony, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Czech Philharmonic and many other distinguished artists. With her sister, violinist Yoon Kwon, she has given over 200 joint recitals throughout the United States under the auspices of CAMI, and has recorded for BMG/RCA Red Seal. Her solo album of Schubert and Liszt (MSR Classics) earned a Grammy Award for Best Producer of the Year (David Frost) in 2009.
A dedicated teacher, Min Kwon has given master classes at major institutions and festivals around the world, among them the Royal College of Music in London, Shanghai and Beijing Conservatories in China, National University of Singapore, Academy of Fine Arts in Hong Kong, The Juilliard School, Mannes College of Music, New York University, University of Chicago, Vladmir Feltsman's Summerfest, AMEROPA Int’l Festival in Prague, Kuhmo Int’l Festival in Finland, and Vianden Music Festival in Luxembourg. Dr. Kwon is currently Chair of Keyboard Programs and Professor of Piano at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University in New Jersey where she works with a highly selected group of doctoral candidates. Her students have won numerous national and international prizes. She is also Founder and Director of CME, The Center for Musical Excellence in New York, a non-profit organization dedicated to mentor and help careers of gifted young international pianist. With Robert Lehrbaumer, she also serves as Co-Director of Vienna ConcertoFest in Austria.
She performs as a piano soloist, as an accompanist for singers and instrumentalists (Hans Hotter, Kim Borg, Iliana Cotrubas, Robert Holl, Elly Ameling, Kurt Equiluz, Graziella Sciutti et al.), as well as an organist and a harpsichordist. She has been the accompanist for master classes in Vienna, Heidelberg, Stuttgart, Berlin, Aldeborough, Matsue, Osaka, Nagoya, Cleveland. She has been a teacher for Lied-accompanist in Tokyo, Matsue, Hamamatsu as well as in Seoul and at the Vienna Master Classes. Margit Fussi can be credited with many CD and radio recordings.
Born in Carinthia, Austria; received her first piano lessons at the "Kärntner Landeskonservatorium" followed by studies with Prof. Charles Rainer in Montreal and at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (piano and organ) with Prof. Walter Fleischmann and Prof. Dr. Rudolf Scholz. Besides her university studies Judith Velisek has attended various masterclasses.
Since 1991 she has been teaching at Austrian music schools and has been a tutor to many award-winning students. Besides her intensive teaching activities, Judith Velisek regularly performs both as an organist and as a pianist, focusing on chamber music and piano accompaniment, at various music festivals.
Over the past several years he has succeeded to wipe off the dust from the organ, and establish a new reputation for this instrument. He enjoys a hugely varied performing career on a diverse spectrum of keyboard instruments including, organ, piano, harpsichord and his special instrument: the harmonium d'art.
Balázs Szabó began his musical studies at the age of 15, graduated from the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest and went on to continue his studies in Germany, Italy and the Netherlands. During his studys his most important mentor was Prof. Dr. Christoph Bossert, he also concluded the only existing International Master for OrganExperts in Rome and Trossingen, finally 2015 he recived the Doctor of Philosophy in Musicology in Utrecht. He won first Prizes at renowned international organ competitions: St. Maurice (2007 CH), Biarritz (2009 FR), Nürnberg ION (DE) and 2nd prizes in Chartres (2014 FR), Wiesbaden (2009 DE) and Heidelberg (2008 DE). 2010 he received the City of Miskolc Standard of Excellence Award, the Junior Prima Prize and in 2015 the Múzsa-Award. Since 2011 he holds a teaching position at the Liszt Academy of Music and at the Béla Bartók conservatory in Budapest.
Balázs Szabó is a renowned specialist for Max Regers music, in 2016 both his new release double CD, featuring all seven choral-fantasias and his gap filling publication received high acclaim.
Born in Meissen, the pianist is a professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, specializing in song and oratorio interpretation. He is a partner to many leading singers of our time.
He received his training at the Carl Maria v. Weber Academy of Music in Dresden. While still a student, he discovered his passion for song accompaniment, to which he has devoted himself since fleeing the former GDR.
Lademann's musical home since 1997 has been Vienna. He was the artistic partner of Siegfried Jerusalem and has accompanied other renowned artists such as Diana Damrau, Edita Gruberova, Paul Armin Edelmann, Mathias Hausmann, Sibylla Rubens, Chen Reiss, Günther Groissböck, Daniela Fally, Robert Holl, Marlis Petersen and Robert Dean Smith.
As a Lied accompanist, Lademann has performed at numerous music festivals and in the most important centers of international music creation such as the Vienna Musikverein, the Salzburg Festival, the Semperoper Dresden, the Berlin State Opera and the Berlin Philharmonic, the Munich Opera Festival, the Wigmore Hall London, the Carnegie Hall New York and the Teatro alla Scala Di Milano. Other concerts and masterclasses have taken him to France, Spain, Belgium, Kazakhstan, Mexico City and Shanghai.
His discography includes a live recording of the lieder recital with Diana Damrau at the 2005 Salzburg Festival, the world premiere recording of Gustav Mahler's cycle "Des Knaben Wunderhorn" in the original piano version and the first recording of Mahler's "Das Lied von der Erde" in the version for tenor, baritone and piano. He accompanied the Israeli soprano Chen Reiss on her CD of Italian songs by Schubert and Donizetti.
Together with Marlis Petersen, Lademann realized 3 albums of her tetralogy "Dimensions", of which the first CD "Dimensions-World" was awarded the "Diapasion d'or". For the third CD "Dimensionen-Innenwelt", released in 2019, Marlis Petersen was awarded the Opus Klassik as Singer of the Year 2020, in the same year the last CD of the work was released under the title "Dimensionen-Neue Welt".
In addition to his work as a Lied accompanist, the pianist has a great passion for Lied poetry projects: Since 2009, he has increasingly devoted himself to musical-literary projects, which he has realized together with actors such as Peter Matic, Sophie von Kessel, Jürgen Tarrach, Angela Winkler and Oscar winners Martina Gedeck and Sebastian Koch. This collaboration resulted in several CDs, including "Songs and Letters" with the song cycle "Myrten" by Robert Schumann and diary entries and letters by Robert and Clara Schumann.
Another recording with Ulrich Reinthaller as partner includes Rainer Maria Rilke's "Duino Elegies VI-X" and solo piano works.
Mirjam Schröder is Professor at the University for Music and Performing Arts Vienna. Before she was teaching at Hochschule für Musik Weimar.
The harpist Mirjam Schröder was born in Karlsruhe, Germany, and started her harp studies with Renie Yamahata in Stuttgart. When she was just 15, she debutated with Mozart´s Concierto for harp, flute and orchestra. Since then, she is giving concerts as soloist and chamber musician in all of Europe.
Mirjam Schröder accomplied her studies at the Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel with Susanna Mildonian and at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold with Catherine Michel and Godelieve Schrama. She is prizewinner of multiples international harp competitions, among them the Arpista Ludovico Harp Competition, Madrid, International ARD Music Competition Munich, International Reinl-Competition Vienna/Munich.
In her solo-recitals, Mirjam Schröder shows all the multiple different possibilities and colours of her instrument. She is performing in different chamber music groups too - duos with the guitar player Maximilian Mangold, the percussion player Rie Watanabe and the flutist Kaori Fujii. As she is also interessted in the music of our time, she inspires composers to create works for the harp and her chamber music partners.
Numerous radio and CD-recordings are documenting her work.
Website: www.mirjamschroeder.com
The Austrian cellist (born in Samsun, Turkey) studied concert cello at the Ankara Conservatory of Music (Turkey), the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Lyon (France), and the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna.
Performances as a soloist or chamber musician include the Vienna Concert Hall, Mirabell Palace in Salzburg, Gewandhaus in Leipzig, Berlin, Lyon, Rome, Warsaw, Istanbul, Athens, and Sofia.
His repertoire encompasses all styles from baroque to modern music. CD recordings as a chamber musician with works by Kurt Weil, Alfred Uhl, Paul Kont, and others.
He teaches in St. Pölten. Some of his students are Prima la Musica prize winners and are already active as musicians and music teachers themselves.
He composes as a member of AKM and INÖK.
Austrian flutist Elisabeth Möst worked as a lecturer at the International Music Academy Göttingen/Kassel (“ITA”) before joining the International Association for Music Education in Prague and the College of Music Reykjavik, and becoming a guest lecturer at the Academy of Music in Sofia. She teaches a course in Aflenz (Styria) and at the Bavarian State Music Academy. She also holds workshops on the topics of “body/posture/breathing.”
She studied at the private universities of music in Linz and Vienna and completed master classes with William Bennett, Maxence Larrieux, and Aurele Nicolet. After graduating, her musical path led her to private studies with Manuela Wiesler (Vienna) and to the Royal Academy of Music in London with William Bennett.
A multiple award winner, the artist made her debut in London in 2001 with the world premiere of a work by Helmut Neumann, which he had composed for her.
Her extensive repertoire ranges from Baroque to modern. Many contemporary composers (including Violeta Dinescu, Nikolai Badinski, Morgana Badinski, W. A. Schultz, Gruchmann, Glinsner, Essel...) have composed for her and dedicated works to her or entrusted her with their world premieres. In the spring of 2024, she was able to perform Anne de Boysson's new duo for flute and harp, “Metamorphose,” at the famous Carnegie Hall.
Elisabeth Möst performs as a soloist and chamber musician in Europe, South America, Australia, and the USA. She was a special guest at the International Flute Festival in Lima, Peru, where she also gave master classes, and at the International Flute Festival in Manchester. Alongside stars such as G. Kremer and B. Skride, she opened the “Natur” festival and plays duo evenings together with the renowned violinist and violist Elisabeth Kufferath.
Elisabeth Möst is an ambassador for the Klangreiheninstitut in Vienna. She creates “meditative soundscapes” that can be defined as a mixture of spoken word, music, and spiritual ideas and are theme-based. Her project “Die Osternacht” (Easter Night) was awarded the maximum rating of 6 stars by the press during an Austrian tour.
Several CD recordings and radio recordings round off her artistic work.
