Martin Nöbauer
Modern and Period Piano
Nöbauer does not play as young musicians often do – with aggressiveness, with the urge to assert themselves, convinced that strength lies in visibility. He plays – and this is his greatest gift – as if he already knew he had nothing to prove. Beethoven’s Sonatas – the “Moonlight” and the “Hammerklavier” – did not appear as opposites, but as two stages of the same process: the discovery of the instrument and of oneself.
Wiesław Kowalski, Festival “Chopin and His Europe” 2025
Biography
Austrian pianist Martin Nöbauer performs on both modern and historical instruments. Most recently, he has been awarded 2nd prize and Klemens Kramert special prize at the 17th International Beethoven Piano Competition Vienna, performing at Wiener Musikverein Golden Hall with Vienna Symphony under the baton of Petr Popelka. In 2023, his success as a finalist in the 2nd International Chopin Competition on Period Instruments in Warsaw resulted in a CD release of his competition performances by the Fryderyk Chopin Institute. Earlier, he was awarded the 1st prize at the Classic on Danube International Piano Competition and at the Hildegard Maschmann Foundation Piano Competition held at University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna where he was selected among European concert pianists studying at music universities in Austria.
He also received various prizes at the International Competition Musica Antiqua Brugge, the Piano Academy Eppan, the Mozarteum International Summer Academy Competition which resulted in a performance at the Salzburg Festival, the Musica Juventutis Audition, and the International Chamber Music Competition Fortepiano Plus Schloss Kremsegg (1st Prize).
He has performed as a piano duo with Elisabeth Leonskaja at the Stars and Rising Stars Festival in Munich and most recently in the Main Hall of the Brucknerhaus Linz. Recently, he has appeared at festivals such as the Kulturkreis Deutschlandsberg (Ö1 Radio Broadcast), St. Florianer Brucknertage, Festival Haydnregion Niederösterreich, Musiktage Mondsee as well as VIP Classical at Dubai Opera. In 2024, he performed recitals at Fryderyk Chopin’s birthplace in Żelazowa Wola, organized by The Fryderyk Chopin Institute. This current season he will release his CD “Chanter avec les doigts” featuring piano works by Frédéric Chopin which will appear on the Gramola label. Also this season he will make his debut at the festivals “Unione Musicale” in Turin (together with violinist Yuki Serino) and “Chopin and his Europe” in Warsaw.
Martin Nöbauer began his piano studies at the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz and currently studies with Pavel Gililov at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg. In addition, he received further artistic training from Boris Petrushansky at the Fondazione Accademia Internazionale di Imola, and studied fortepiano with Wolfgang Brunner at Mozarteum University and with Edoardo Torbianelli at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. He has received scholarships from the Aspen Music Festival and School, the Theo and Petra Lieven Piano Foundation as well as the Music Academy in Liechtenstein, where he regularly takes part of the intensive weeks as a student of the Imperial Program.
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