A pleasant but nevertheless curious story took place in 1989: namely, the young pianist was appointed Germany's youngest professor at the time. Bernd Glemser, who was still a student of the Russian pedagogue Vitalji Margulis, had to be exmatriculated as a student of the Musikhochschule in Freiburg, but received the comforting decision to be allowed to take his outstanding exams within 2 years.

One of the few opportunities for a piano student to perform internationally - especially with an orchestra - is almost exclusively at competitions. Thus, until 1987, the young pianist toured the world and unknowingly broke a record that has stood alone since 1890: he won 17 competitions and special prizes in a row! "So I was able to buy my first grand piano from the prize money after all".

With an extraordinary range of repertoire, from the baroque to the modern, Bernd Glemser today ranks among the international pianist elite. The passionate virtuosity of his playing - coupled with witty elegance - now fascinates audiences from Chile to China, where in 1996 he was the first artist from the West to perform live on television ("of course" the 1st Piano Concerto by Tchaikovsky). The 33 CD recordings released to date have almost without exception received awards from the specialist press, most recently the recording of the 4 Scherzi and Ballades by Chopin Recording of the Month February 2011 by Robert Cummings (GB, USA, AUS, NZ).

The next CD recording will include some of the most important piano works by Franz Liszt. The Sonata in B minor is a work that has been a central musical statement and revelation of content for Bernd Glemser for decades.

Annually 15-20 worldwide radio broadcasts and television recordings of concerts with great conductors, such as Herbert Blomstedt, Riccardo Chailly, Welser-Möst, Myung Whun-Chung. Dimitri Kitajenko, Osmo Vänskä or Wolfgang Sawallisch confirm Glemser's exceptional status.

The pianist feels a great affinity for the work of Sergei Rachmaninov. So it seems almost logical that Bernd Glemser was invited to Philadelphia by Wolfgang Sawallisch to play Rachmaninov's 3rd Piano Concerto. The orchestra, which had already assisted the composer on his own recordings, was celebrating its 100th birthday. Hollywood, with the same "fondness", has had its 2nd concerto played in excerpts by Bernd Glemser in the new movie "Spiderman 3".

A long way for a boy from the Swabian Alb, who often skied to practice the piano in the wintertime.

In addition to his many awards, Bernd Glemser received the Andor Foldes Prize in 1992 and the European Pianist Prize in Zurich in 1993. In November 2006 he was awarded the Art Prize of the City of Würzburg.

In 2003 - by the (then) Federal President Rau - he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit.