- So why is it then, that the songs play such a prominent role in my production? Quite simply the fact that I, like other mortals, once in mye life was highly gifted. And that gift was Love. I loved a young girl with a beautiful voice and just as beautiful a delivery. This girl became my wife and life partner to this very day. I venture to say that for me she is still the only true interpreter of my songs! My songs came about as of necessity and were all made for her... (From Griegs diary)
Robert Lehrbaumer is one of Austria’s most remarkable interpreters: celebrated conductor and pianist and organist. 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 Vienna’s Musikverein und Konzerthaus to New York’s Carnegie-Hall and Tokyo’s 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 (Schwarzbauer, Medjimorec and Schwertmann, who was a student of the famous Franz Liszt-disciple Emil von Sauer, what makes Robert Lehrbaumer being a follower of Franz Liszt and Carl Czerny and Ludwig van Beethoven and Joseph Haydn), organ (Scholz), composing (David) and conducting (Suitner).
Prizes in numerous piano-and organ competitions, especially Geneva 1985, and scholarships by Boesendorfer and the Alban Berg Stiftung distinguish the young interpreter.
When he was 11, he had his first appearance as a soloist with orchestras and has since performed concerts as a pianist, as organist or/and as a conductor 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 orchestras in Austria and abroad (Germany, Switzerland, Paris, Budapest, Slovakia, Moscow, Spain, Rumania, Mexico…) – as a soloist under the baton of conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Yehudi Menuhin, Sandor Végh, André Previn, Michel Plasson, Leopold
Hager, Hans Graf....
He had musical partnerships with singers like Anton Dermota, Walter Berry, Adrian Eröd, Angelika Kirchschlager, Ildikó Raimondi, Rudolf Schock, Bo Skovhus, violinist-legend Wolfgang Schneiderhan, piano-colleagues Friedrich Gulda, Philippe Entremont, concertmaster and members of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and many others.
Robert Lehrbaumer pursued his careers as an organist and as a pianist and as a conductor simultaneously. His special piano-organ-recitals, also with orchestras, are very popular events for which he gets rave reviews.
He has participated in numerous festivals such as the Vienna Festival, Salzburg Festival, Brucknerfest/Linz, Carinthian Summer/Ossiach, Bregenz Spring, Lucerne 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, besides concerts with Abbado, Sinopoli, Previn, Caballé, Brendel.
In addition, Robert Lehrbaumer has made recordings for radio and TV stations, LP and CD; he has starred in films and videos.
He teaches at international master courses in Austria and abroad and holds master classes at the University for Music in Vienna and at Universities in USA and Mexico and Asia and teaches at one of Vienna’s conservatories. Member and president of juries of international competitions.
When conducting Robert Lehrbaumer is known to perform also both as conductor and pianist/organist in works of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Gershwin, Liszt, Poulenc and others.
Performed in KORSKIRKEN (Church of the Cross)
Korskirkeallmenningen
(150m from Tourist Information)
BERGEN CITY MAP
GRIEG'S CULINARY
SYMPHONY Before the concert, enjoy typical norwegian food at the restaurant Holberg Stuen, the menu made especially for the Grieg-audience.
