The German-Austrian pianist, Stefan Arnold, who currently resides in Vienna, started piano lessons at the age of four. He studied at the University of Music in Würzburg, where he won the 1st Prize at the university competition. In 1983 he was accepted at the University of Music in Hanover, where he studied with the famous piano pedagogue, Hans Leygraf.

In 1985 he completed his degree summa cum laude and received a scholarship from the German People’s Study Foundation. Stefan Arnold continued to study in Salzburg, where he graduated from the Mozarteum University of Music with distinction and received the Outstanding Young Artist of The Year award granted by the Austrian Government. He completed his postgraduate studies, with distinction, at the University of Music from Berlin.

Stefan Arnold has won numerous prizes, including the 1st Prize at the Senigallia International Piano Competition in Italy 1986 and the 1st Prize at the Deutscher Musikwettbewerb (German Music Competition) in 1987. He was chosen twice to perform at the German national Young Musicians Concerts. He was also an award winner at the International Piano Competition in Dublin.

Since winning the 1st Prize in the 1988 International Bösendorfer Competition in Austria, Stefan Arnold has established himself as one of the most gifted pianists of his generation. In addition to performances with major European Orchestras, he has made guest appearances at the International Mozartweek of Salzburg, the Mozartfest of Würzburg, Klaviersommer Bonn, the Bologna-Festival, the Rossini-Festival of Pesaro , the Art & Music Festival of Junsele, the Royal Palace Festival of Stockholm, the Vendsyssel-Festival, the Festival “Octobre Musical Carthage” and the St. Pauls Festival of New York .

Stefan Arnold has performed in many of the world’s most renowned concert halls such as the Tonhalle in Zürich, the Philharmonie in Berlin, the Gasteig in Munich, the Festspielhaus in Salzburg, the Musikverein and Konzerthaus in Vienna, the Tivoli in Copenhagen, the Palacio de las Bellas Artes in Mexico-City, the Teatro Opera in Buenos Aires, Suntory-Hall and Bunko Kaikan in Tokyo and Symphony-Hall in Osaka.

He has performed as soloist with the Radio Symphony Orchestra of Berlin, the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, the Stuttgart Philarmonic Orchestra, the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra, the Vienna Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra, the Camerata Orchestra of Salzburg, the National Symphony Orchestra of Belgium, the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra, the Stockholm Sinfonietta, the Eugene Symphony Orchestra, the Rochester NY Philharmonic Orchestra and the Singapore Symphony Orchestra under such conductors as Gabriel Feltz, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Eduardo Garcia Barrios, Okko Kamu, Göran W. Nilsson, Christoph Poppen, Christoph Prick, Jonathan Seers, Hubert Soudant, Yuri Simonov, Jeffrey Tate, Arild Remmereit, Matthias Bamert or Kaspar Zehnder.

Stefan Arnold has made recordings on the Harmonia Mundi and Ambitus labels. Since he became an exclusive Ambitus artist, this collaboration has produced eleven recordings with works by Liszt, Brahms, Schubert, Beethoven, Mozart, Schumann, Debussy, Berg and Schoenberg, including Mozart’s Piano Concertos Nos. 12 and 14.

2004 Arnold was appointed professor for piano at the University of Music and Performing Arts of Vienna. Additionally to that he got a professorship at the “Hanns Eisler” University from Berlin.

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