Austrian mezzo soprano Daniela Lehner studied in Linz, Vienna, the Mozarteum Salzburg and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.
Daniela has
received scholarships for the Ravinia Festival Young Artists Programme,
Britten-Pears Young Artists Programme and the Music Academy of the
West. She has participated in masterclasses with Marilyn Horne, Christa
Ludwig, Graham Johnson, Martin Katz, Margo Garrett, Roger Vignoles,
Malcolm Martineau and Ferenc Rados.
She has worked with leading pianists such as Mitsuko Uchida, Stephen Kovacevich, Graham Johnson and Roger Vignoles. Daniela also works closely with Spanish pianist Jose Luis Gayo, her regular duo partner. Apart from conventional repertoire, the duo also enjoys exploring lesser known German, Spanish and Latin-American works.
In 2008 Daniela made her Royal Opera House Covent Garden debut, singing the
role of Hermia in Britten's "A Midsummer Night's Dream". She has participated in Graham Johnson's complete Schumann song recordings (Hyperion) and has recorded for BBC Radio 3, ORF and NDR.
A committed recitalist, she has appeared at Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall, Laeiszhalle Hamburg, Wiener Konzerthaus, De Singel Antwerp, Klavier Festival Ruhr, Kölner Philharmonie, Philharmonie Berlin, Aldeburgh Festival, Chichester Festival, Cheltenham Festival, Oxford Lieder Festival and BBC Proms.
Awards
include a Georg Solti Scholarship, Rotary Prize, Prize of the Académie
Musicale de Villecroze and First Prize in the Marilyn Horne Foundation
Competition. She received a Borletti-Buitoni Award in 2008 and was a BBC New Generation Artist from 2008-2010.
Highlights in 2010/11 include concerts and recordings for BBC Radio 3, Mendelssohn "A Midsummer Night's Dream" in the Barbican with the London Symphony Orchestra under Bernard Haitink, Mozart "La Finta Giardiniera" in the Barbican and the Théâtre des Champs- Elysées with the Academy of Ancient Music under Richard Egarr, Zemlinsky "Maeterlinck Lieder" under Kazushi Ono, Mozart Requiem under Sir Colin Davis in Barcelona and with the BBC Philharmonic under Juanjo Mena, Zarzuela arias and Spanish songs with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Josep Pons and Mahler's "Das Lied von der Erde" in the Berlin Philharmonie.
Future projects include recordings with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Idamante for Grange Park Opera, a tour of works by Vivaldi with the Academy of Ancient Music and a tour of works by Beethoven with Sir John Eliot Gardiner.