Joachim Arnold (musician)
Joachim Arnold (* 1965 in Merzig ) is a German pianist , conductor , producer and entrepreneur .
Life
Joachim Arnold began his piano studies in 1982 as a preparatory student at the Saarland University of Music with Alexander Sellier . From 1985 to 1991 he was trained by Karl-Heinz Kämmerling at the Hanover Music Academy. From 1992 to 1994 he studied music director with Wolf-Dieter Hauschild ( University of Music Karlsruhe ) and with Toshiyuki Kamioka ( Aalto-Theater Essen). In 2007 he completed his studies in cultural management at the University of Zurich with an “Executive Master's in Arts Administration” . Joachim Arnold received two-time scholarships from the German National Academic Foundation (piano and conducting).
Joachim Arnold was married to the actress and author Edda Petri from 1994 to 2019 . The marriage resulted in two sons.
Act
Joachim Arnold pursued a career as a pianist until 1991. He played concerts at home and abroad and was a guest at various broadcasters for radio recordings, including NDR , SR , WDR , Deutschlandfunk and Radio Moscow . During this period there were also recordings, including Beethoven's Piano Sonatas op. 13 and op. 53 and Robert Schumann's Symphonic Etudes . A 1985 live recording of Beethoven's " Hammerklavierersonate " sonata op.106 from the concert hall of the Saar University of Music was broadcast in 2014 as part of a broadcast on SR2 Kulturradio .
An irreparable dystonia ( occupational cramp ) of the 4th finger of his right hand ended his piano career in 1991. Joachim Arnold switched to the Aalto-Theater Essen (1993 to 1995) and the Staatstheater Wiesbaden (1996 to 1997) as a solo repetitor with a conducting obligation . Since then he has worked as a freelance conductor, mainly for opera productions. With the French pianist Patricia Pagny and the Radio Symphony Orchestra Bratislava he played the Mozart piano concertos No. 21 (KV 467 in C major) and No. 22 (KV 482 in E flat major) on record.
In 1999 he founded Musik & Theater Saar GmbH in Merzig. The company runs various festivals initiated by Joachim Arnold even before the GmbH was founded:
- The "Chamber Music Days Mettlach" is an annual festival with internationally awarded, mainly young musicians and ensembles.
- The "Musiktheater im Zeltpalast" is an annual opera and musical festival in summer. Directors were u. a. Torsten Fischer, Thilo Reinhard and Andreas Gergen .
- "SR Klassik am See" is an annual open air festival at the Losheim reservoir (Saarland). The cooperation partner is the German Radio Philharmonic Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern . International soloists such as the mezzo-soprano Elīna Garanča and the tenor Joseph Calleja performed there.
In 2001 the “Musik & Theater Saar” in Merzig built the “Zeltpalast Merzig” as its own venue. Concerts ( Dave Brubeck , “The Tiger Lillies”, Ute Lemper ) and other festivals such as “Rock am Bach” take place here. From 2005 to 2007 the "Musik & Theater Saar" also played the "E-Werk Saarbrücken", an industrial culture hall with an area of almost 2000 m².
In the 2006/07 season, Joachim Arnold headed the project “New space structure and pricing” at the Komische Oper Berlin . From 2007 to the beginning of 2011 he was Director for PR and Marketing, Sales and Development at the Zurich Opera House . He also worked on the conception of the program for the designated artistic director of the Zurich Opera House from 2012 onwards.
In 2011 he was artistic director at Esterházy Palace in Eisenstadt. On the initiative of the Esterházy Foundation, he designed a new festival. a. René Jacobs and Gidon Kremer participated. As artistic director at the St. Margarethen Opera Festival , he brought out Don Giovanni in 2011 .
Joachim Arnold was a lecturer at the Saar University of Fine Arts and the University of Music and Theater Munich (HMT) as well as a guest speaker at the Vienna University of Economics and the University of Zurich . Between 2014 and 2016 he was deputy opera director at the Wuppertaler Bühnen .
conductor
Joachim Arnold has conducted since 1994 a. a. the following works: The Bird Trader , The Csárdásfürstin , Così fan tutte , The Magic Flute , Le nozze di Figaro , The Abduction from the Seraglio , Don Giovanni , Carmen , Das Rheingold , The Barber of Seville , Rigoletto , The Threepenny Opera , La traviata , The Freischütz , The bat and Madama Butterfly .
Awards
- 1988: Winner of the "International Piano Competition of the University of South Africa" in Pretoria
- 1988: Prize winner and chamber music special prize at the "International Gina Bachauer Piano Competition" in Salt Lake City / USA
- 1989: Winner / special scholarship at the German Music Competition in Bonn
- 1990/1991: “Federal selection of concerts of young artists” by the German Music Council
- 1990: Scholarship from the Soviet "All Union Music Society"
Piece orders to authors
- 1995 "Tina and Mücke" (a play for children by Erhard Schmied )
- 2001 "The Secret of the Mona Lisa" (musical by Edda Petri and Wolfgang Heinzel)
Web links
- Literature by and about Joachim Arnold in the catalog of the German National Library
- Biography on the website of Musik & Theater Saar
Individual evidence
- ↑ Interview with Edda Petri. (PDF) Retrieved July 17, 2018 .
- ↑ Joachim Arnold plays Beethoven's "Hammerklavierersonate" op. 106. Accessed on December 23, 2019 (German).
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Arnold, Joachim |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German pianist, conductor, entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Merzig |