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Firmian Lermer studied in Vienna with Thomas Kakuska and the Alban Berg Quartet, with Sergiu Celibidache in Munich and G. Kúrtag in Amsterdam.

He was principal violist of the Camerata Academica Salzburg and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra under Claudio Abbado for many years. He is a regular guest solo violist at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich. The sought-after soloist and chamber musician also tours the world as a partner of Lukas Hagen, Enrico Bronzi, Sergio Azzolini, Franz Bartolomey and others.

In 1996 he was one of the founding members of the Hyperion Ensemble. Since 2005 he has been a professor at the University Mozarteum Salzburg, since 2013 at the Landeskonservatorium Innsbruck and at the Haydn Konservatorium Eisenstadt. He gives numerous master classes at the University of Auckland NZ, at Yale University and at the Austrian Masterclasses.

He plays a viola by Laurentius Storioni from 1796.