Pianist Anna Gebhardt is debuting at prestigious venues such as Wigmore Hall, the Lucerne Festival, and Schumannfest Düsseldorf in 2026. She has also been selected as a Britten-Pears Young Artist for the 2025/26 season and has been accepted onto the renowned Song Studio programme at Carnegie Hall. She has devoted herself intensively to song accompaniment and chamber music for several years, and was accepted as a scholarship holder at the Heidelberg Spring Song Academy under the direction of Thomas Hampson for the 2023/24 season.
She recently won third prize at the International Competition for Song Artistry in Stuttgart with her long-standing duo partner, the baritone Jonas Müller, with whom she previously received the Kulturkreis Gasteig Music Prize in Munich.
She has already performed in concerts around the world, including at the Opéra national du Rhin Strasbourg, the Alte Oper Frankfurt, the SWR Festspiele Schwetzingen, the Konzerthaus Berlin and the Schubertíada Vilabertran. She also collaborates closely with Julian Prégardien, Christoph Prégardien, Anna-Lena Elbert and Florian Störtz. Together with violinist Nathalie Schmalhofer, she won second prize at the Harald Genzmer Competition and first prize at the Fischer-Flach Competition.
She studied music pedagogy and piano at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich with Prof. Silke Avenhaus, subsequently continuing her studies with Prof. Bernd Glemser in Würzburg. She went on to study song interpretation under the guidance of Prof. Fritz Schwinghammer, Prof. Christian Gerhaher, Tobias Truniger and Prof. Gerold Huber.
In 2015, her hometown of Straubing awarded her the Culture Promotion Prize. She is particularly passionate about music education and regularly shares this passion during school visits as part of the Rhapsody in School organisation. She also pursues this passion through the Musentöchter festival, which for the first time takes place in June 2026 at a former factory site in her hometown of Straubing.
Since the winter semester of 2020, she has held a teaching position in accompaniment at the Leopold Mozart College of the University of Augsburg.
