Andreas Lindenbaum was born in 1963 in Detmold, Germany.
In 1986 he received a scholarship from the “International Rotary-Foundation” which allowed him to pursue his studies at the School of Music in Bloomington, USA, where he was a student of Janos Starker. He also trained as an actor and worked with an independent theatre group in Germany for a year.
From 1990 to 1999 he held a position as professor at the Conservatory of the City of Vienna. He has appeared as a soloist and with chamber music ensembles at the Salzburg Festival, the Bregenz Festival, Warsaw Autumn, and the Akiyoshidai Festival and has recorded for the radio as well as on CD both as a soloist and as a member of the Tetras-Quartett.
Since 1989, the year he moved to Vienna, Andreas Lindenbaum has been a member of Klangforum Wien.