Robert Lehmann

Website:

www.maestrolehmann.com

Biography:

Robert Lehmann is Associate Professor of Music and Director of Strings and Orchestral Activities at the USM School of Music. In addition to his duties at USM, he is Music Director of the Portland Chamber Orchestra, the North Shore Philharmonic Orchestra and the White Mountain Bach Festival in New Hampshire and conductor of the Portland Youth Symphony Orchestra.

He holds degrees in Violin Performance from the University of the Pacific, the Eastman School and Boston University and has been a fellow at the American Academy of Conducting at the Aspen Festival and at the Conductors Institute at Bard College. Dr. Lehmann has concertized as violinist and conductor, in his native Mexico, throughout the US, Puerto Rico and in Europe and Ukraine. He has been a frequent guest conductor with the Portland Symphony and has conducted All State and Festival Orchestras from Maine to California and Hawaii. Prior to his appointment at USM, he was Music Director of the Mozart Society Orchestra at Harvard, and on the conducting staff of the Greater Boston and the Empire State Youth Orchestras. He is first violinist of the Meliora Quartet and concertmaster of the PORTOpera and Choral Art Society. He is in demand as a performer, conductor, teacher and adjudicator and is listed in Who's Who in American Music. His new CD, “Chamber Music for String by Manuel M. Ponce” has just been issued by Centaur Records. He recently conducted the world premiere of Portland Ballet’s newly commissioned “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”. Dr. Lehmann resides in Scarborough with his wife Kim, a violist with the PSO, and his two sons, Eric and Alex.

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Recent Publication:

Manuel Ponce: Chamber Music for Strings. String Quartet; Sonata a Duo; Petite Suite dans le style ancien; Robert Lehmann, violin; Jennifer Elowitch, violin; Kimberly Lehmann, viola; William Rounds, cello