Roman Lemberg

Roman Lemberg is a musician, composer and music dramaturg. He frequently collaborates with visual artists on exhibition and performance projects, including Kris Lemsalu (La Biennale di Venezia) and Leila Hekmat (Disappearing Berlin / Schinkel Pavillon, Haus am Waldsee). Most recently, in collaboration with Leila Hekmat, he created the musical comedy ‘Gloriette’ (HAU 1 Berlin) in 2024. Together with the visual artist Michael Kleine, he has organised a series of concerts, performances and exhibition projects (Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz and Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin; Klosterfelde Edition, Hamburg; Bonner Kunstverein). With the Berlin collective HAUEN & STECHEN, he focuses on reimagining the great myths of opera history in experimental formats. This has resulted in ‘Salomé’ (Théâtre de l’Athénée, Paris / Sophiensæle, Berlin), ‘Mater noster’ (Wuppertaler Bühnen) and ‘Kitesh’ (Halle Opera / Bremen Theatre). Together with director Julia Lwowski, he developed ‘Don’t you NOMI!’ for the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin. A series exploring themes from Mikhail Bulgakov is currently being staged at various venues in Berlin. He has also worked with the directors Aliénor Dauchez/La Cage, Felix Rothenhäusler, Lulu Obermayer, Nele Janke and the HORA Theatre. He is currently composing a film score for “Containers love Company” by Romana Schmalisch & Robert Schlicht. At the University of Art and Design Graz, Roman Lemberg was a member of the research project “Between Hermeneutics and Performativity”, which explored innovative strategies for opera production. Together with Barbara Beyer, he edited the anthology “Die Zukunft der Oper” (The Future of Opera) (Theater der Zeit) in 2014. From 2019 to 2024, he was a member of the ‘Young Academy at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina’. He is currently focusing primarily on organ music, church interiors and new approaches to sacred music.