"Fine nuances, noble sound, soft touch and sparkling registers make me enjoy the Bechstein sound again and again."
Johannes Obermeier
Johannes Obermeier (*1998) is a multi-talented young artist. He has won several national and international prizes for piano, composition and saxophone and performs successfully at national and international level. In 2022, he won 3rd prize in the ARD International Piano Competition.
After his junior studies in saxophone (Koryun Asatryan) and piano (Olaf Dreßler), he began studying business administration at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in 2016, graduating with a Master of Science in March 2022. Since fall 2019, Johannes Obermeier has also been studying piano as an artistic major with Adrian Oetiker and composition as a major with Jan Müller-Wieland at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich. Since 2021, he has held a student teaching position there in the subject of accompaniment for instrumental classes as well as opera and oratorio.
Johannes Obermeier has won numerous national and international competitions, including the Pegalogos Prize 2016, first prize in the Kulturkreis Gasteig 2022 competition, a scholarship from the Deutschlandstipendium and 3rd prize in the ARD competition. He has performed as a soloist with orchestras such as the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Munich Chamber Orchestra and the Munich Radio Orchestra.
Johannes Obermeier has been a sought-after chamber musician and guest at numerous festivals for many years. In recent years, he has been invited several times to festivals throughout Germany and has played with members of various German orchestras.His work brings him together with musicians such as Janina Fialkowska, Volker Banfield, Ian Bostridge, Gerold Huber, Peter Michael Hamel, Joshua Weilerstein, Yaron Rosenthal, Christian Lauba, Mark Andre and Minas Borboudakis.
In April 2023, Johannes Obermeier recorded his debut CD "Brilliants" with the Carl Bechstein Foundation and the Genuin classics label. It includes works by Schumann, Ravel, Chopin, Godowsky and one of his own compositions. The CD will be released in June 2024.
His compositions are regularly performed in concerts in a wide variety of formations, especially piano and chamber music. With his opera -F-i-v-e-, he brought his first full-length musical theater to the stage in November 2023. He wrote the libretto, composed the music, conducted the orchestra and took part in the direction. The reviews were extremely positive. In his work as a composer, he is the winner of the 2022 Günter Bialas Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts.
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