David Arden

David Arden (left) and Luciano Berio in Florence (1996)

David Mitchell Arden (born September 6, 1949 in Los Angeles , California ) is an American pianist .

Life

From 1969 to 1971 he studied with Lucy Brown at the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. Studies with Frédéric Gevers followed , and in 1974 he obtained a diploma from the Royal Flemish Conservatoire in Antwerp. From 1976 to 1978 he studied with Aloys Kontarsky at the Cologne University of Music .

In 1974 he won the Tenuto Young Virtuosos Competition in Brussels, in 1976 the Kranichsteiner Music Prize (piano) of the International Summer Courses for New Music in Darmstadt and in 1981 the International Gaudeamus Competition for interpreters of contemporary music. In 1975 he came third at the International Gaudeamus Competition for Interpreters of Contemporary Music in Rotterdam behind Fernando Grillo (double bass) and Bruno Furlanetto (clarinet).

In 1978/79 he was music director of the New York Shakespeare Festival production Wake Up, It's Time to Go to Bed! . 1979/80 he was visiting professor for piano at the University of California, San Diego . In San Francisco he founded the New School of Piano. From 1981 he worked as a soloist at the American Ballet Theater in New York. In 2000 he founded the Keys To Achievement Foundation, of which he is a member of the Board of Directors.

literature

• Jaques Cattell Press (ed.): Who's Who in American Music: Classical . Volume 1, RR Bowker, New York 1985, ISBN 0-8352-2074-5 , p. 18.

Web links

Commons : David Arden  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• David Arden at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Competitions, in: The World of Music 17 (1975) 4, p. 8 f.
2. ↑ About us , keystoachievement.org, accessed May 13, 2018.