Lera Auerbach was born in 1973 in Chelyabinsk (Ural) on the borders of Siberia. She is one of those outstanding and ambitious multitalented young people in the international cultural scene who have already become known in several different fields. At the age of four she learnt to play the piano and compose, and she wrote her first opera when she was twelve. At the age of fourteen she published her first book of poetry and prose. She won several piano competitions and was invited to a concert tour of USA in 1991. She decided to remain in USA and completed piano and composition courses at the renowned Juillard School. On 1. May 2002 she gave her first concert in the Carnegie Hall in New York. In 2005 she was awarded the "Deutschlandfunk" prize for promoting young artists, as well as the financially substantial composer prize of the German Hindemith Society.

Central to her concert in the Arithmeum are, of course, her own compositions, and also the seventh piano sonata by Sergej Prokofieff. The other performers are Zoryana Kushpler (soprano) and Sonia Wieder-Atherton (cello).