Robert and Kimberly Lehmann

Concert I, 2024-2025 Season

Robert Lehmann and Kimberly Lehmann

Robert and Kimberly Lehmann started their duo partnership long before they married. While in residence at the Heidelberg Opera Festival in Germany, they would often busk on the streets for extra spending money. Beer and Bratkartoffeln for one, ice cream for the other! After they married they often found themselves playing through a great deal of duos they inherited from Robert's grandparents (amateur musicians themselves). Between violin/violin and violin/viola combinations, they have spent many hours enjoying this unique pastime.

Over the years they have added to their repertory and enjoy creating programs that balance established violin/viola duos with new works and creative arrangements of everything from Bach's two-part inventions to tangos. The Lehmanns have performed duo programs all over New England and California, have performed the Mozart Sinfonia Concertante with various orchestras, and have concertized in Mexico and Europe. Most recently at the American Church in Paris, Vienna, Austria, F-13 Private House Concerts in Mainz, Germany, Sebastianskapelle in Baden, Switzerland, and the Assisi Performing Arts Festival in Assisi, Italy.

Originally from Sioux Falls, SD, Kimberly received degrees from the University of Minnesota and the Eastman School of Music. She has been a member of the Colorado Springs Symphony and the Boston Philharmonic and is now a member of the Portland Symphony Orchestra.  She is Artist Faculty at the USM School of Music and concertizes throughout New England as both a soloist and orchestral player.

Robert studied at the Conservatorio Nacional de Musica in his native Mexico City, and then received degrees from the University of the Pacific, the Eastman School and Boston University. He is Professor of Music, Director of Orchestral Activities and String Studies at the Osher School of Music at the University of Southern Maine, where he conducts the Southern Maine Symphony, Portland Youth Symphony and is Music Director of the North Shore Philharmonic and White Mountain Bach Festival. He is a frequent guest conductor for the Portland Symphony Orchestra.