Gerhard Feldmann

Gerhard Feldmann has a long and personal history with Bösendorfer, having begun his career more than 35 years ago as an apprentice at the Bösendorfer piano factory in Vienna, Austria. He has subsequently traveled the world as a Bösendorfer master concert technician, contributing to the legacy of the Viennese Sound, one piano at a time. With his training, there is no one more perfectly suited to represent Bösendorfer in New York City.

Mr. Feldmann is the only Bösendorfer factory trained technician in the United States with 14 years of manufacturer experience. He is a piano and concert technician of world renown, an outstanding specialist in the workings of the piano action and voicing of hammers, as well as restoration of older instruments, set aside of concert preparation and recording provisions. Gerhard Feldmann is an avid piano player with an astounding in-depth knowledge of classical music who has worked with all the major names of the international concert stages, assisting them with the most tailored rendering of their pianos.

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Mr. Feldmann has been a key insider in the piano world for many years. For a decade, from 1993 to 2003, Mr. Feldmann operated Gerhard Feldmann Concert Service Inc., providing grand pianos for concerts and recordings, sale, as well as piano repair and rebuilding, tuning, voicing and maintenance, for a tremendous roster of individuals and institutions. Before founding his own firm, from 1982 to 1993, he was a technical director for piano dealers in Melbourne- Australia, Dallas and New York.

From 1979 to 1985, Mr. Feldmann was head technician for Bösendorfer’s concert, service & repair department, based at then Bösendorfer’s US headquarters in French Lick, IN. He had previously served as a Bösendorfer international Concert Technician throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. He began his career in 1972 as an apprentice at the Bösendorfer Klavierfabrik piano factory in Vienna, Austria.

A native of Berndorf, Austria, Mr. Feldmann owns and operates Bösendorfer New York together with his business partner, Lisa Feldmann. He is known throughout the international music community as Bösendorfer’s greatest champion, immensely and uniquely qualified to represent the great history and tradition of these legendary pianos.

Gerhard Feldmann has provided his expertise for:

Concert Artists

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Isolde Ahlgrimm

Monty Alexander

Geri Allen

Martha Argerich

Ray Charles

Sammy Davis Jr.

Philippe Entremont

Christoph Eschenbach

Ferrante & Teicher

Ella Fitzgerald

Leon Fleisher

Tommy Flanagan

Bengt Forsberg

Malcolm Frager

Claude Frank

David Golub

Richard Goode

Hélène Grimaud

Friedrich Gulda

Paul Gulda

Rico Gulda

Sir Roland Hanna

Thomas Hampson

Marc André Hamelin

Christopher Hinterhuber

Dick Hyman

Billy Joel

Yoshiko Kishino

Radu Lupu

Marian McPartland

Arturo Benedetto Michelangeli

Paul Moravec

Oender Brothers

Garrick Ohlsson

Anne Sophie von Otter

Zanev Pasaryan

Oscar Peterson

Mikhail Pletnev

Lucia Popp

Menahem Pressler

Charles Rosen

Joan Rowland

Haskell Small

Konstantin Soukhovetski

Naum Starkman

Jean Yves Thibaudet

Stevie Wonder

Aziza Mustafa Zadeh

Venues

92nd Street Y, New York

Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, New York

Anderson University

Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, New York

Belvedere, Vienna, Austria

Bruckner Saal, Linz, Austria

Carnegie Hall, New York

Chamber Music Society, Lincoln Center, New York

Dallas Symphony, Texas

Festspielhaus Bregenz, Austria

Houston Symphony, Texas

Konzerthaus, Vienna, Austria

Merkin Hall, New York

Meyer Center, Melbourne, Australia

Miller Theatre, New York

Musikverein, Vienna, Austria

New Orleans Symphony, Louisiana

Philharmonie Berlin, Germany

San Antonio Concert Hall, Texas

Salzburg Festspielhaus, Austria

Schloss Schönbrunn, Vienna, Austria

Schubertiade Hohenems, Austria

Schubertiade New York

Sydney Opera House, Australia

Town Hall, New York

Victoria Hall Geneva, Switzerland

Filharmonia Narodowa w Warszawie, Poland

Piano Competitions

Beethoven, Vienna, Austria

Bösendorfer, Vienna, Austria

Busoni, Bolzano, Italy

Chopin, Warsaw, Poland

Geneva, Switzerland

Liszt, Budapest, Hungary

Van Cliburn, Fort Worth, Texas

Conservatories, Colleges, and Universities

A & M University at Commerce, Texas

Austin Peay University, Tennessee

Conservatorium Melbourne, Australia

Konservatorium Vienna, Austria

Henderson State University, Arkansas

M.I.T. Cambridge, Massachusetts

Mozarteum Salzburg, Austria

Musikhochschule Vienna, Austria

New Orleans Arts Center, Louisiana

Peabody Institute, Baltimore, Maryland

Princeton University, New Jersey

Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts

University of San Antonio, Texas

University of Texas in El Paso

University of Indiana at Bloomington

University of Vancouver, Canada

University of Saskatchewan, Canada

University of New Mexico at Portales

University of Florida in Tallahassee

University of Missouri in Kansas City

University of North Dakota in Grand Forks

University of Virginia in Charlottesville

Western Connecticut State University

Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts

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