Robert Neumann

As a winner of numerous national and international youth competitions, Robert Neumann (born 2001) was awarded with the International Classic Music Discovery Award 2017. He was described as "an exceptional gift", "one of the most promising piano talents". The young pianist made his orchestral debut with the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra when he was eight, and since then he has appeared with other orchestras, including the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, German State Philharmonic Ludwigshafen, Stuttgart Philharmonic, Liechtenstein Symphony Orchestra, SWR Symphonieorchestra, Praga Philharmonic Camerata and the Gewandhausorchester. Robert was a guest at the Festival "Moscow meets Friends" 2013, Festival of Bad Kissingen (Kissinger Sommer), Schwetzingen Festival, Gstaad Menuhin Festival, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, Schleswig-Holstein-Festival, Mosel Festival, Lucerne Festival, Interlaken Classics Bern, SOLsberg Hochrhein Musikfestival, Krzyzowa-Music and Classical Bridge Festival NY. Robert has also appeared in the Tonhalle Zürich, Herkulessal München, Bregenz Festival Hall, Salle Cortot Paris, Konzerthaus Dortmund, Gewandhaus Leipzig, Victoria Concert Hall Singapore, the Moscow International Performing Arts Center and Lincoln Center NY. Versatile as a chamber musician he has played with Daniel Müller-Schott, Julia Fischer, Sebastian Manz, Maximilian Hornung, Olli Mustonen and Quartetto di Cremona. He grew up in a multilingual family of musicians and since he was four years old Monika Giurgiuman taught him at the Stuttgart Music School. At the age of eleven Robert has been accepted as a junior student into the class of Prof. Elza Kolodin at the Freiburg Music Academy. Robert started on his B.A. in Music at the age of 15. For his master's degree, he joined Eldar Nebolsin at the Hanns Eisler Hochschule für Musik Berlin in 2021.