Johannes Obermeier

Johannes Obermeier (*1998) is a versatile young artist. After his pre-college studies in saxophone and piano, he began a degree in business administration at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in 2016, graduating with a Master of Science in March 2022. Since autumn 2019, Johannes Obermeier has also been studying piano with Adrian Oetiker and composition with Jan Müller-Wieland at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich. Here he has been teaching musical coaching for instrumental classes and for opera and oratorio since 2021 as part of a student teaching assignment.

Johannes Obermeier’s concert career takes him to Germany and abroad, and he has performed as a soloist and chamber musician at numerous festivals. He collaborates with renowned musicians such as Daniele Gatti, Janina Fialkowska, Volker Banfield, Gerold Huber, Ian Bostridge, Yaron Rosenthal, Mark Andre, and Minas Borboudakis and appears as a soloist with orchestras such as the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Munich Chamber Orchestra, and Munich Radio Orchestra.

Johannes Obermeier is the winner of numerous national and international competitions. In 2022, he received the third prize at the ARD International Music Competition in the piano category. Just a few days later, he won first prize as well as the audience prize at the International Schimmel Piano Competition. He is the winner of the 2022 Bialas Sponsorship Award of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts Munich, second prizewinner of the 2022 Steinway Scholarship, first prizewinner of the Kulturkreis Gasteig Musikpreis 2022, and a scholarship holder of the Deutschlandstipendium.