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Leonhard Baumgartner, born in Vienna in 2007, is a major prizewinner of renowned competitions, including the 1st Prize at the Zhuhai International Mozart Competition, 1st Prize and Special Prize for the Holocaust Memorial piece at the International Ilona Fehér Competition, the 1st Prize, Grand Prix and Audience Award at the Osaka International Music Competition, Discovery Award of the ICMA Awards, Carl Flesch Prize Baden-Baden. In August 2024 Leonhard won the Eurovision Young Musicians Competition, accompanied by the Norwegian Radio Orchestra. At the age of 15, he made his debut with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra at the Vienna Konzerthaus. A recent recording features him in the World Premiere Recording of Mozart's newly discovered Serenade Ganz kleine Nachtmusik K.648 for Deutsche Grammophon and Stage+.
Leonhard studies with Dora Schwarzberg at the University for Music and Performing Arts Vienna. Further studies with Ingolf Turban at the University for Music and Theatre Munich, former studies with Regina Brandstätter at the University for Arts Graz.
He also played as a soloist with NFM Wroclaw, Berlin Baroque Soloists, Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn and Vienna Chamber Orchestra. He is a scholarship holder of the Liechtenstein Music Academy, offering him intensive studies and concert engagements such as soloist with the Symphony Orchestra Liechtenstein and Anna Handler and a tour with Ensemble Esperanza. Leo performed in Kronberg with Gidon Kremer, Gary Hoffman and Lawrence Power at the festival "Chamber Music Connects the World".
His studies are supported by the Nina Gscheider & Florian Schwarz Scholarship of the Stretton Society, through which he is admitted in the mentoring program with Vilde Frang. Leonhard plays a violin of Antonio Stradivari, "Ex Petherick" (Cremona, 1683). The loan was made possible by a member of the Stretton Society.