Johannes Berger

Johannes Berger began receiving instruction on several keyboard instruments during his childhood. At 11 years of age, he was admitted into the circle of students of Munich-born organ teacher Franz Lehrndorfer. After graduating from secondary school, he studied organ, harpsichord and sacred music at the Higher School of Music in Munich. He was greatly influenced by his teachers, Harald Feller and Christine Schornsheim. The university awarded him a Deutschlandstipendium scholarship based on his academic achievements. He continued his training in Amsterdam under Jacques van Oortmerssen and in Salzburg with Reinhard Goebel. Johannes Berger has been awarded prizes at competitions at home and abroad, including the Grand Prix Bach de Lausanne, where he also won the people's choice award. Besides his broad concert career as a soloist, featuring performances on significant organs and in key series across Belgium, France, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, Slovenia, Spain, the Czech Republic, and Peru, he has performed with leading orchestras including the Munich Philharmonic, the Bavarian Radio Symphony, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the Bavarian State Orchestra, the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra, the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra, and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra. He has performed under the direction of acclaimed conductors such as Mariss Jansons, Bernard Haitink, Zubin Mehta, Kirill Petrenko, Kent Nagano, Teodor Currentzis, John Eliot Gardiner, Philippe Herreweghe and Gustavo Dudamel, in prestigious concert halls, such as the Philharmonie de Paris, the Musikverein Vienna, the Royal Albert Hall London, the Gulbenkian Lisbon, the Dresden Semperoper, the Lucerne KKL, the Madrid National Auditorium, the Barcelona Palau de la Música, the Berlin Philharmonie, the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, the Moscow Zaryadye Hall, the Seoul Arts Centre, and the Taipei National Concert Hall.