A renaissance artist for modern times, Lera Auerbach is a widely recognized conductor, pianist, and composer. She is also an award-winning poet and an exhibited visual artist. All of her work is interconnected as part of a cohesive and comprehensive artistic worldview.

Lera Auerbach has become one of today’s most sought-after and exciting creative voices. Her performances and music are featured in the world’s leading stages – from Vienna’s Musikverein and London’s Royal Albert Hall to New York’s Carnegie Hall and Washington D.C.’s Kennedy Center.

Auerbach’s exquisitely crafted, emotional, and boldly imaginative music reached global audiences. Orchestral collaborations include the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, National Symphony, Oslo Philharmonic, Munich’s Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Staatskapelle Dresden, and Vienna’s ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester, among many others. Auerbach’s works for orchestra are performed by the world’s leading conductors, including Manfred Honeck, Christoph Eschenbach, Alan Gilbert, Neeme Järvi, Vladimir Jurowski, Charles Dutoit, Andris Nelsons, Osmo Vänskä, Hannu Lintu, and Marin Alsop, to mention only a few.

During the 2022-23 season, Lera Auerbach performed concerts with Hilary Hahn at Wigmore Hall in London and at the Boulez Saal in Berlin. She also conducted Tchaikovsky’s 5th Symphony with Enescu Philharmonic in the subscription series, as well as played and conducted Mozart’s Piano Concerto K466.

Other recent season highlights also included WienModern’s 3.5-hour production of Demons & Angels with Auerbach as conductor. Washington D.C.’s National Symphony premiered her 4th Symphony “ARCTICA” – a work commissioned by the National Geographic Society. Also, her Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra “Diary of a Madman” commissioned by the Munich Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra, and Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, received its global premieres with cellist Gautier Capuçon. 

Her 4th Violin Concerto “NYx: Fractured Dreams” was commissioned and premiered by the New York Philharmonic with Alan Gilbert and Leonidas Kavakos, and the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra premiered her symphonic poem Eve’s Lament with Marin Alsop. In 2022, the Nuremberg State Philharmonic presented the world premiere of Symphony No. 5 “Paradise Lost” conducted by Joana Mallwitz, and her Symphony No. 6 “Vessels of Light,” a commission of Yad Vashem – The World Holocaust Remembrance Center, was unveiled in Lithuania as part of the city’s Cultural Capital of Europe celebrations and received its American premiere at Carnegie Hall on April 19, 2023.

In May 2023, Lera joined the All – Stars line up’ project at the Carnegie Hall to pay tribute to the renown physicist, humanist and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Andrei Sakharov, with such artistic partners as Maxim Vengerov, Gidon Kremer, Steven Isserlis, Evgeny Kissin, Georgjis Osokins and the Emerson String Quartet in its farewell Carnegie Hall performance.

Amare at the Hague presented a two-week Auerbach Festival in October 2023, including all aspects of her artistic offerings: conducting, piano performances, composition, poetry, and visual art.

Further 2023-24 appearances include the Dresden Philharmonie, Hamburg Ballett, and an Italy tour with Orchestra Regionale della Toscana, which made its debut in Florence and Milan. 

The 2024-25 season will see Lera partnering with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra in Stuttgart, Modena, and Genoa, as well as making her solo piano recital debut in Rome, Italy, and collaborating for the first time with the Southwest Florida Symphony Orchestra in Fort Myers at the Barbara B. Mann Center for the Performing Arts.