Based in Boston for three decades, Bertram Lehmann is a sought-after player within a multitude of musical contexts in the New England region and beyond, primarily performing Jazz, Latin, and World music. A Berklee faculty member since 2004, he is active in the Percussion, Ear Training, and Liberal Arts departments of the college. Equally in demand as a drummer as well as a percussionist, he continues to draw on his extensive experience and unique instrumental background as both a performer, as well as a scholar of a wide array of musical genres and styles. Initially rooted in solid orchestral percussion training and first professional exposures, he quickly expanded into Jazz and other contemporary genres and since has become one of the top experts on Caribbean and South American drum set practice, as well as other traditions not only from the Africa and its diaspora but also India, and the Mediterranean. 

Bertram Lehmann has appeared and/or recorded with a wide array of renown artists, including Paquito D'Rivera, Randy Brecker, Dave Liebman, Anat Cohen, Antonio Sanchez, Romero Lubambo, Danilo Perez, Claudio Roditi, Tiger Okoshi, Oscar Castro-Neves, Eddie Gomez, Kenny Werner, the NDR Bigband Hamburg, and Dave Samuels' Caribbean Jazz Project, and has toured internationally in Russia, India, Bermuda, South Korea, British Virgin Islands, Ecuador, Ghana, Mexico, Turkey, Spain, Israel, and Germany. 

To this date Mr. Lehmann has tracked on over 60 CD recordings, including most recent releases with the Klaus Spencker Trio ('Crossing Borders'), Felipe Salles’ Interconnections Ensemble (‘The Lullaby Project’ and 'The New Immigrant Experience'), Imagine 5’s self-titled debut, and double-neck guitar sensation Ian Ethan's ‘Earth Suite’, among others. He also can be seen and heard on DŰNYA's ‘Othello in the Seraglio – an Ottoman Coffeehouse Opera’, a full-length movie available on Amazon PRIME Video. Other noteworthy CD releases include the Mehmet Sanlikol’s ‘WhatsNext’ bigband ('Resolution,' feat. Dave Liebman, Anat Cohen, Antonio Sanchez), Felipe Salles' ('The Ugandan Suite' feat. Dave Liebman and 'Departure' feat. Randy Brecker), David Fiuczynski ('Kif Express'). 

Some of the distinguished national venues he has performed at include Lincoln Center, Metropolitan Museum, National Sawdust, Birdland and The Jazz Gallery in New York City; Symphony Hall, The Opera House, Boston Globe Jazz Festival, The Regattabar, Scullers, Celebrity Series of Boston, The American Repertory Theater, Museum of Fine Arts in Boston; and many other venues elsewhere such as the Savannah on Stage, Chicago World Music Festival, Kennedy Center and The Blues Alley (Washington, D.C.), as well as the Philadelphia Museum of Art. International highlights include 'Jazz Yatra' Festival (Mumbai), the Tchaikovsky Conservatory (Moscow), 'Panafest' (Accra), Kumho Art Hall (Seoul), ‘Istanbul Jazz Festival’, and Hannover Jazz Week (Germany). 

Since his graduation from Berklee College of Music in the mid-1990s, Bertram Lehmann has enjoyed decades of, in some cases ongoing, musical associations with a wide variety of top-tier New England-based ensembles and individual artists. Particularly formative for his evolution as a player proved the quintet of Brazilian vocalist Luciana Souza, the Afro-Latin all-star group Mango Blue led by Ecuadorian bassist Alex Alevar (at the time including players such as Alon Yavnai, Miguel Zenon, Anat Cohen, Alain Mallet), and the idiosyncratic Indo-Jazz ensemble Natraj that collaborated with Indian music legends such Chitraveena Ravikiran, Kadri Golpana, and Steve Gorn but also and West-African master drummers Abubakari Luna and Lamine Toure. 

Beyond those key projects he has lent his musical services to many other regionally renown artists over the course of the years, including vocalists Rebecca Parris, Mili Bermejo, Katie Viqueira, vibist Victor Mendoza, Brazilian composer Felipe Salles, Turkish music ensemble DUNYA, guitarists Peter Janson and Ian Ethan, and Cuban piano virtuosos Tony Perez and Osmany Paredes. 

Mr. Lehmann has conducted Clinics/workshops at the University of Bremen (Germany), Fundacio L'Aula de Musica (Barcelona), University of Massachusetts Amherst and Boston campuses, Five Towns College, Longy School of Music, Harvard University, Young Audiences of Massachusetts, Wellesley College, Oberlin College, University of New Hampshire, Moscow Conservatory, Keimyung University (South Korea), and the 'Centro Cultural' de Quito as well Universidad de San Francisco (Quito, Ecuador), among others, and has given ethnomusicological presentations on Afro-diasporic rhythmic syntax at the '2nd International Symposium on the Music of Africa', Princeton University (2005) and the '3rd International Conference on Analytical Approaches to World Music', SOAS/University of London (2014). He also served as a panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts’ 2017 grant application review process. 

As a performer, Bertram Lehmann actively endorses Aquarian Drumheads, Vic Firth Drumsticks, Murat Diril Cymbals, DEM' Sticks specialty rods, fans, and brooms, as well as Black Swamp Percussion and Dynamicx Snares.