Prof. Andreas Lehmann

Andreas Lehmann studied at the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar with Prof Jost Witter; his diploma studies were followed by his concert exam. Numerous masterclasses, e.g. with Wolfgang Marschner, Ruggiero Ricci, Boris Kuschnir, Igor Ozim and Thomas Brandis, provided further musical impulses. Parallel to his violin concert exam, Andreas Lehmann studied orchestral conducting with Prof. Gunter Kahlert as part of a supplementary course.

In 1994, Andreas Lehmann became artistic assistant for violin at the University of Music FRANZ LISZT, Weimar, and from 2000 to 2002 he was a violin lecturer at the Kassel Academy of Music. In 2002, he accepted a professorship for violin, methodology and chamber music at the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg. Andreas Lehmann has been Professor of Violin at the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar since 2006.

Andreas Lehmann performs with the LISZT-TRIO WEIMAR, founded in 1990, together with his colleagues Tim Stolzenburg and Christian Wilm Müller. The trio has played numerous radio and CD productions, including a first piano trio recording of Franz Liszt. In 2006, the trio released a CD on æon (Paris), which was awarded the "Coup de Coeur de l'Académie Charles Cros" prize and included works by Mauricio Kagel, with whom the trio has enjoyed a very close and long-standing collaboration.

The LISZT-TRIO WEIMAR has performed at the Schleswig-Holstein Festival, the Sutri Chamber Music Festival (Italy), the Beethoven Festival in Bonn, the Oleg Kagan Festival and the Rheingau Music Festival, among others. The trio opened the 1998 Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival with Beethoven's Triple Concerto together with the Deutsches Sinfonieorchester Berlin and conductor Vladimir Jurowski. The trio also performed this work with the Dresdner Philharmonie, the Thüringen-Philharmonie Gotha/Suhl and the Thessaloniki Colour Orchestra.

Andreas Lehmann is concertmaster of the Central German Chamber Orchestra and the Leipzig Chamber Orchestra, he is also a juror at national and international violin competitions and has been Vice Dean of Faculty I at the University of Music FRANZ LISZT since 2018. He plays a violin made by Parisian violin maker Charles Adolphe Maucotel in 1846.