"In 2026, I had a valuable opportunity to play several Bechstein grand pianos during the German Pianist Prize in Kronberg. The C. Bechstein D 282 concert grand in particular impressed in the final round with its perfect regulation, responsive and supple pedals, and a diplomatic tone quality that allows every player to transfer their own sound to the instrument to the greatest possible extent without being overly influenced by it. It thus provides an equal playing field, even for players who seek extremes."
Robert Neumann
As a winner of numerous national and international competitions - recently winning the German Music Competition 2025 and the international German Piano Award 2025 - Robert Neumann was awarded with the International Classic Music Discovery Award 2017 and an OPUS KLASSIK in 2021. He was described as "an exceptional gift" and "one of the most promising piano talents".
Robert was chosen as “SWR2 New Talent”, presented within fellowship programs of the Mozart Society Dortmund and the Nikolaisaal Potsdam, received the Swiss Charity Award and was appointed laureate of the Freiburg Concert Hall. Over the years he got supported by the Helga-Drews-Foundation, Yamah Music Europe and the Kulmag AG. Currently he is Dinorah-Varsi fellowshipholder of the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben.
SWRmusic/Naxos released two solo albums of his, the Deutsche Grammophon launched a portrait and a studio concert, besides some digital-only singles.
The young pianist made his orchestral debut with the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra at the age of eight. He 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 and Classical Bridge Festival NY. Versatile as a chamber musician he has played with musicians such as Daniel Müller-Schott, Julia Fischer, Olli Mustonen and Sebastian Manz. He is also founder of the piano festival Cannstatter Klavierfrühling in Stuttgart, which took place for the first time in 2024 and presents mainly international pianists and composers of the new generation.
Roberts compositions were recently premiered among others by Julia Fischer, Benjamin Nyffenegger and Alexey Stadler.
He grew up in a multilingual family of musicians and since the age of four taught by Monika Giurgiuman at the Stuttgart Music School. Aged eleven Robert has been accepted as a junior student to the class of Prof. Elza Kolodin at the Freiburg Music Conservatory. Robert started on his BA at the age of 15.
For his masters, he joined Eldar Nebolsin at the Hanns Eisler Hochschule für Musik Berlin in 2021 and continued studying with him his concert degree in 2024.
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