The Lehmanns moved to Gorham a few years ago, after a new empty-nest status allowed them to downsize. They sold their home in Scarborough where they had lived since 2001 and have fully embraced the condo experience in Gorham. 

Robert Lehmann, is a professor of music at the Dr. Alfred & D. Suzi Osher School of Music at the University of Southern Maine (OSOM). He has been calling Gorham ‘home’ since he started working at USM in 2001. Ironically, since the Osher School of Music will be moving into the new Crewe Center for the Arts in Portland, he will no longer be able to walk to work, but he’s still calling Gorham ‘home.’

Lehmann teaches violin and conducts both the Southern Maine Symphony Orchestra and Portland Youth Symphony Orchestra at USM, is music director of the North Shore Philharmonic Orchestra in Swampscott, Massachusetts, and conducts Maine State Ballet’s annual production of “The Nutcracker.” He will be performing two recitals at OSOM’s new concert hall in Portland, Oct. 10, “Ocean Breezes” and March 27, “Fantasy and Folklore.” Learn more at https://usm.maine.edu/music.

Violist Kim Lehmann is a regular member of the Portland Symphony Orchestra and teaches viola at USM. Together the husband and wife team performs as the Lehmann Duo in the U.S and in Europe. 

Robert said, “One of the greatest ‘perks’ to my USM job is that I have the summer ‘off’ to pursue various artistic opportunities.” Of course, for performing artists, the summer “off” really means a summer of scholarship. He continued, “In addition to performing and traveling each summer with Kim in Italy with the Assisi Performing Arts Festival, I often guest-conduct the Portland Symphony Summer Pops, perform as concertmaster for Opera Maine, and get to know many fantastic islands and properties when I play for weddings.” 

The Lehmann duo will be joined by their son Alex, when all three perform together at the White Mountain Musical Arts Bach Festival in North Conway, New Hampshire, on Aug. 23 and 24. Alex Lehmann recently graduated from the prestigious Eastman School of Music and will be pursuing a graduate degree at the New England Conservatory in Boston. He will perform the Quantz flute concerto, with Robert Lehmann conducting, and Kim Lehmann playing viola, and Alex and Robert will be the soloists in Bach’s “Brandenburg Concerto No. 5.”

Their elder son, Eric Lehmann, is a gifted lighting specialist at AV Technik and manager of the Winslow Homer auditorium at Scarborough High School.

This fall Kim will realize a long-standing dream to hike the Camino de Santiago (500 miles from France to Spain), while Robert keeps the home fires burning with a myriad of performances and teaching obligations.

She said, “This summer has been an amazing mix of traveling to Italy, eating great food there with good musician friends and making music with wonderful people, including my husband Robert. It also includes plenty of hiking and walking to ready myself for the Camino de Santiago and getting to be a proud mama as I play in the Bach Festival Orchestra while my son Alex is featured as soloist.”