Gerhard Vielhaber has completed master’s courses with professors Oxana Yablonskaja, Vitaly Margulis, Felix Gottlieb and Anatol Ugorski. He is a member of the BOVIARTrio, with whom he has recorded a CD featuring the works of Beethoven and Bruch.

Gerhard Vielhaber has received many awards, including a 2005 soloist fellowship with the Deutsche Musikwettbewerb Berlin, from which institution he held a 2004 fellowship in the area of chamber music with the BOVIARTrio. Other prizes include: 2001, first prize Grotrian-Steinweg Competition, Ferdinand Trimborn Prize, Ratingen, and in 2002, the culture prize from the district of Olpe. In 2003, he won the Young Artist Award of the GWK in Munster/Westfalia and in 2005 he was a finalist in the International Tomassoni Piano Competition in Cologne. Gerhard Vielhaber has received scholarships from the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, the Jürgen Ponto Foundation, and the GWK. As a young artist, his skills were recognized by the German youth competition Jugend musiziert, where he won national first prizes in 1996 and 1999. In 1996, he was also awarded a special prize from the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben, and the Ibach Prize. In 1997 he received international acclaim in the Czech radio competiton Concertino Praga.

As a soloist, Gerhard Vielhaber has worked with various notable orchestras. To mention a few, he has performed with the Warsaw Radio Symphony Orchestra, the WDR Radio Orchestra Cologne, the Kurpfalz Chamber Orchestra, and the National Youth Orchestra of Venezuela. Radio recordings have documented his work with the WDR, Deutschlandradio Berlin, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Deutschlandfunk, ORF and the Czech Republic Television.