Austrian mezzo soprano Daniela Lehner studied in Vienna, Salzburg and London. She received various scholarships and prizes, including a Georg Solti Scholarship and First Prize in the Marilyn Horne Foundation Competition. Daniela Lehner was also a recipient of the Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award and was a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist. Recent engagements include Zemlinksy Maeterlinck Lieder with the BBCNOW under Kazushi Ono, Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night’s Dream with the London Symphony Orchestra under Bernard Haitink, Ramiro La finta giardiniera with the Academy of Ancient Music under Richard Egarr in London and Paris, Mozart Requiem under Sir Colin Davis in Barcelona and with the BBC Philharmonic and Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, and Zarzuela arias and Spanish songs with the BBCSO. A committed recitalist, Daniela Lehner has appeared at the Carnegie Hall, Philharmonie Berlin, Wigmore Hall, Laeiszhalle Hamburg, De Singel Antwerp, Kölner Philharmonie, as well as the Aldeburgh, Cheltenham, City of London, Oxford Lieder, Danube and Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festivals. She has worked with leading pianists such as Mitsuko Uchida, Graham Johnson and Roger Vignoles, and has recently participated in Graham Johnson's recording of Schumann's Complete Songs for Hyperion Records. In 2011/12 season she will make her role debut as Idamante in Mozart Idomeneo at Grange Park Opera, Dvorak Stabat Mater with the BBC Philharmonic and Beethoven Missa Solemnis with the Monteverdi Choir under Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
Last updated: January 2012
Photograph taken by Elisabeth Blanchet