Daniela Lehner mezzo soprano

Award Winner 2008

Born in Austria, Daniela Lehner studied in Vienna, Salzburg and at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (GSMD) in London. She has appeared at Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall, Musikhalle Hamburg, De Singel Antwerp, the Klavier Festival Ruhr, Cologne Philharmonie, as well as the Aldeburgh Festival, Chichester Festival and Oxford Lieder Festival. Daniela Lehner has performed in the Austrian Cultural Forum's New Artist Series and Yehudi Menuhin's Foundation Live Music Now and was awarded the Philip & Dorothy Green Award for Young Concert Artists by Making Music in 2007. She has received full scholarships to study on the Ravinia Festival Young Artists Programme, Britten-Pears Young Artists Programme and the Music Academy of the West, California. Daniela Lehner has participated in masterclasses with Marilyn Horne, Christa Ludwig, Graham Johnson, Martin Katz, Margo Garrett, Roger Vignoles, Malcolm Martineau and Ferenc Rados. Prizes include a Georg Solti Scholarship, Johannes-Kepler Scholarship, Prize of the Académie Musicale de Villecroze and First Prize in the Marilyn Horne Foundation Competition 2004. She has recently participated in Graham Johnson's complete Schumann song recordings. Operatic roles include the title role in Mignon and Concepcion in L'Heure espagnole (GSMD) and Arsamenes in Handel's Serse (Cheltenham Festival). This year she will make her Royal Opera House Covent Garden debut, singing the role of Hermia in Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Photograph taken by Elisabeth Blanchet