BBC Cardiff Singer of the World and Song Prize competitor

Daniela Lehner studied in Vienna, Salzburg and at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. She has appeared at the Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall, Musikhalle Hamburg, De Singel Antwerp, Kölner Philharmonie, Aldeburgh Festival, Chichester Festival and the Oxford Lieder Festival.

Prizes include a Georg Solti scholarship, Rotary prize, Académie Musicale de Villecroze prize, first prize in the Marilyn Horne Foundation Competition and a Borletti-Buitoni award. She is currently on the BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme.

Daniela has received scholarships to study on the Ravinia Festival Young Artist Program, Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme and at Music Academy of the West. She has participated in master classes with Marilyn Horne, Christa Ludwig, Graham Johnson, Roger Vignoles, Malcolm Martineau and others.

As part of Live Music Now! she has given numerous workshops and concerts in hospitals, special needs schools and care homes. She participated in Graham Johnson's complete Schumann song recordings for Hyperion and has performed live on BBC Radio 3, Classic FM, ORF and NDR.

Daniela recently made her Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, debut, singing Hermia in Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Forthcoming engagements include appearances at the Wigmore Hall, Konzerthaus Wien, Aldeburgh Festival, City of London Festival, BBC Proms and Philharmonie Berlin (with Mitsuko Uchida).

Daniela enjoys reading, cooking and travelling.