Julian Arp

Julian Arp was born in Soltau, 1981, and received his first cello lessons at the age of six. He studied with Prof. Boris Pergamenschikow and Prof. David Geringas at the Academy of Music Hanns Eisler. Currently he continues his studies in a chamber music class of Prof. Eberhard Feltz. He also attends master classes regularly, gaining important artistic insight from György Kurtag, Ferenc Rados, Bernhard Greenhouse, Steven Isserlis, Lynn Harrell and Ralph Kirshbaum.

Together with his duo partner Caspar Frantz, Julian Arp has won a large number of prestigious awards such as the first prize at the Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Competition in 2006, the award for best chamber music ensemble at the Freunde junger Musiker, the first prize at the German Music Competition 2006 which included the special prize of the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben as well as the first prize at the International Competition for chamber music Premio Vittorio Gui in Florence, 2006. For the label genuin they recorded two cds: the complete works for cello and piano by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and also works by Chopin, Schumann, Janacek and Debussy.

Julian Arp gave his solo debut at the Schwetzinger Festspiele in 1997, and has ever since performed extensively in Germany and all over Europe as a soloist and as a chamber musician. He has played with the Georgian Chamber Orchestra, the Berlin Sinfonics, the Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin, the Shenzhen Philharmonic Orchestra, at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Rheingau Music Festival, at the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the Beethovenfest Bonn, Ludwigsburger Festspiele, in Beauvais and in Prussia Cove. Many radio-broadcasts were produced for the NDR, the SWF, the WDR and the RBB.

Julian has been awarded many prestigious prizes and scholarships, only to name the Boris Pergamenschikow scholarship that was awarded to him by the Kronberg Academy in 2004. From 1996 till 2001 he was recipient of a scholarship from the Jürgen-Ponto Stiftung. From 2001 till 2007 he held a scholarship from the Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst and was a fellow of the Villa Musica.

Julian Arp is founder and artistic director of the Festival Zeitkunst for chamber music and contemporary literature in Berlin.