Johannes Obermeier (*1998) is one of the most versatile artists of his generation. He has won several national and international prizes for piano, composition and saxophone and performs successfully at home and abroad. In 2022, he won 3rd prize in the ARD International Piano Competition. On October 1, 2025, he was appointed Professor of Piano and Chamber Music at the Stella Vorarlberg University of Music Feldkirch.

After his junior studies in saxophone (Koryun Asatryan) and piano (Olaf Dreßler), he began studying business administration at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in 2016, graduating with a Master of Science in 2022. Since fall 2019, Johannes Obermeier has also been studying piano as an artistic major with Adrian Oetiker and Michael Schäfer and composition as a major with Jan Müller-Wieland at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich. From 2021 to 2024, he held a student teaching position there in the subject of accompaniment for instrumental classes as well as opera and oratorio.

Johannes Obermeier has won numerous national and international competitions. He is the winner of the Pegalogo Prize 2016, 2nd prize winner of the Steinway Prize 2022, 1st prize winner of the Kulturkreis Gasteig 2022 competition and a scholarship holder of the Deutschlandstipendium. A few days after winning 3rd prize at the ARD competition, he won first prize at the International Schimmel Piano Competition the following week and also won the audience prize. He has performed as a soloist with orchestras such as the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Munich Chamber Orchestra and the Munich Radio Orchestra.

Johannes Obermeier has been a sought-after chamber musician and guest at numerous festivals for many years. In recent years, he has been invited several times to festivals throughout Germany and has played with members of various German orchestras. His work has brought him together with musicians such as Kent Nagano, Janina Fialkowska, John Adams, Volker Banfield, Ian Bostridge, Gerold Huber, Peter Michael Hamel, Christian Lauba, Mark Andre and Minas Borboudakis.

In April 2023, Johannes Obermeier recorded his debut CD "Brilliants" with the Carl Bechstein Foundation and the Genuin classics label. It contains works by Schumann, Ravel, Chopin, Godowsky and one of his own compositions. The CD was released in June 2024. In October 2024, a second solo album was released in cooperation with Genuin classics and Bayerischer Rundfunk. It contains works by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy.

His compositions are regularly performed in concerts with a wide variety of instrumentations, especially piano and chamber music. With his opera -F-i-v-e-, he brought his first full-length musical theater to the stage in november 2023. He wrote the libretto, composed the music, conducted the orchestra and took part in the direction. The reviews were extremely positive. In his work as a composer, he is the winner of the Günter Bialas Prize 2022 from the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts. He is also a fellow of the Cité International des Arts Paris.