Austrian Pianist Patrick Lechner studied in Salzburg, Munich and Vienna. Among his teachers were Karl-Heinz Kämmerling, Thomas Böckheler and Awadagin Pratt. He holds a Doctoral degree from Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, where he received a full scholarship. He worked extensively with Zoltan Kocsis, Mikhail Voskressensky, Emanuel Ax, Michel Béroff, Philippe Entremont, Richard Goode and Peter Feuchtwanger, and participated in the selective International Piano Academy of Sergei Babayan in Cleveland and the Beethoven-masterclass of the Wilhelm-Kempff-Stiftung in Positano with John O' Conor.

 

He is a prize winner in several international competitions, the Joseph-Dichler Competition in Vienna/Austria, the Chopin International Piano Competition in Hartford/USA, the Münchner Klavierpodium in Munich/Germany, the Concerto Competition in Cincinnati/USA. In addition, he won the Bösendorfer Scholarship of the Austrian Music Universities and the "Great Steinway Prize" in Munich.

 

 

Frédéric Chopin - Nocturne in B major op. 9/3

Frédéric Chopin - Ballade no. 4 in f-Minor, op. 52
Frédéric Chopin - Polonaise-Fantaisie op. 61

Franz Liszt - Dante Sonata

Franz Schubert (arr. Liszt) - Valse-Caprice no. 6

Lowell Liebermann - Nocturne no. 4

Joseph Haydn - Sonata Ab-Major Hob. XVI:46