Robert Lehmann

Robert Lehmann is Professor of Music at the University of Southern Maine School of Music where he conducts the Southern Maine Symphony and the Portland Youth Symphony. Additionally, he is Music Director of the North Shore Philharmonic and the White Mountain Bach Festival. He holds degrees in Violin Performance from the University of the Pacific, the Eastman School, and Boston University, and has been a fellow at the Aspen Festival's American Academy of Conducting and the Conductors Institute at Bard College. Dr. Lehmann has concertized as violinist and conductor in his native Mexico and throughout the US, Central America, Europe, and Ukraine. He has been a frequent guest conductor with the Portland Symphony, Portland Ballet, and has conducted All-State and Festival Orchestras from Maine to California and Hawaii. He has been an adjudicator at the National Orchestra Festival and the ASTA National Convention and is in demand as a performer, conductor, teacher, speaker, and is listed in Who's Who in American Music. He is concertmaster of the Opera Maine Orchestra and the Choral Art Society. His CD, “Chamber Music for String by Manuel M. Ponce” was issued by Centaur Records in 2009. Highlights in 2022 will include return engagements to perform with the Assisi (Italy) Music Festival, as soloist with the Camerata Pannonica (Austria/Hungary), a recital at the American Church in Paris, and to conduct the Maine All-State Orchestra and the Texas High School Orchestra Festival. He will also guest conduct the Concord (MA) and Wellesley Symphony Orchestras.

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