Sheila Arnold

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Sheila Arnold (born March 18, 1970 in Tiruchirappalli , South India ) is a German concert pianist of Indian origin.

Career

Sheila Arnold was born in India to Indian parents and grew up in Germany . After initial piano lessons with Etta Hilsberg, she joined the harpsichordist and organist Ilse Schwartz in Berlin when she was eight. At the age of ten she became a private student of Heidi Köhler in Springe. This was the beginning of eight years of professional training with public concerts and prizes at national and international competitions. The core of the training was the search for sound and the integrity of expression. After graduating from high school, she joined Karl-Heinz Kämmerling's class at the Hanover University of Music and Drama , where she completed several courses and completed her studies with the concert exam. She experienced further musical influences from  Ferenc Rados , Lev Naumov, Hans Leygraf , Elisabeth Leonskaja , Imogen Cooper , Claude Frank and  Dénès Zsigmondy .

Concert activity

Sheila Arnold gave her first public piano recital at the age of 12. An international concert career soon developed. She could be heard as a soloist as well as chamber music and with an orchestra . Regular radio productions and live recordings followed in her youth (including WDR , NDR , MDR , HR , SWR , ORF , Radio Télévision Suisse Romande , Danish broadcasting, Belgian broadcasting). At the age of 17 she made her debut in the Berlin Philharmonic . She has also given concerts in the Cologne Philharmonic , the Gewandhaus Leipzig , the Liederhalle Stuttgart , the Konzerthaus Dortmund , the Laeiszhalle Hamburg , the Palau de la Música València , the NCPA Concert Hall in Mumbai and the "Torre Tagle" in Lima (Peru ) .

She worked with the Orchester de Chambre de Lausanne , the Beethovenhalle Orchestra Bonn and the Prague Chamber Orchestra, as well as the conductors Jesús López-Cobos , Marc Soustrot and Michael Hofstetter .

Her chamber music partners included the violinists Latica Honda-Rosenberg and Isabelle Faust , the clarinetists Nina Janßen and Ralph Manno , the bassoonist Sergio Azzolini , the horn player Wilhelm Bruns , the cellist Guido Schiefen , and the guitarist Alexander-Sergei Ramírez , as well as the Mandelring- Quartet .

She also made guest appearances at the Music Festival Schleswig-Holstein , at the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern , the Ruhr Piano Festival , the Ravinia Music Festival in Chicago, the Hambach Music Festival, the Heidelberg Spring , and the Euriade Festival.

Educational activity

Between 2000 and 2005 Sheila Arnold taught at the Hanover University of Music and Drama , at the Dortmund University of Music and at the Folkwang University in Essen . In 2005 she followed a call to the Cologne University of Music and Dance . Sheila Arnold also gives master classes worldwide.

With the actress Uta Jacobi she developed the children's music theater Wolferl auf Reisen - or Pipsi, Miss Pimpes and the Lautleise , in which preschool and elementary school children get to know the harpsichord , fortepiano and organ better. Nestled these "Instrument tuition for children" is the story of the great European trip the family Mozart 1763-1766, from the bitch Miss Pimpes told the Mozart family. Sheila Arnold is the best friend of Miss Pimpes, who loves Mozart's music very much and knows a lot about the instruments.

She also takes part in the international project Rhapsody in School , initiated by Lars Vogt , which invites well-known musicians to schools.

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Musical personality

There are three elements that shape the game and Sheila Arnold's teaching.

Historical keyboard instruments: Sheila Arnold sees the expressive possibilities of the modern grand piano and the historical keyboard instruments in a symbiotic relationship to one another. She belongs to the generation of pianists who deal with questions of historically informed performance practice on the respective instruments and, as a result, allow both historical and modern instruments to be found in their respective language and tonality.

Resonance: She is always on the lookout for the tonal possibilities inherent in the instrument and the resonance that arises in three forms. In the instrument itself, between instrument and player and between both and the listener. This would be in a certain relationship to the common perception of time and only when this arises will the prerequisite for a common and at the same time individual feeling of all participants be given.

Language and communication: The preceding elements result in the development of different musical languages ​​as a consequence. Both in the course of the ages and in different cultures. Not only the rhetorical or declamatory side of the language is meant here, but also the language style and character of different countries.

Her repertoire covers the entire range of classical music from the 18th century to world premieres of contemporary works.

Awards

Since 1982 Sheila Arnold has received prizes at national competitions, including the national youth music competition , the Steinway piano competition and the Grotrian-Steinweg piano competition. In 1985 she received a second prize at the international piano competition in Senigallia and was a finalist at the Viotti competition in Vercelli . At the International Mozart Competition in Salzburg she was awarded the Wiesbaden Mozart Prize and she was a finalist at the International Clara Haskil Piano Competition in Vevey . As a finalist at the German Music Competition, she was included in the list of artists of the German Music Council . She also received a scholarship from the Werner Richard - Dr. Carl Dörken Foundation and was elected to the BEST of NRW concert series. She received a scholarship from the Märkische Kulturkonferenz and became a scholarship holder of the Zonta International Union of German Zonta Clubs. In the series “Concerts of Young Artists” she was represented both as a soloist and in a duo with clarinetist Nina Janßen .

She was also a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation , the Märkische Kulturkonferenz and the Dorothea-Erxleben-Program of the Lower Saxony Ministry for Science and Culture .

Recordings (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

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  3. ^ Piano music - Sheila Arnold plays works by Schubert . In: Deutschlandfunk . ( deutschlandfunk.de [accessed on March 27, 2018]).
  4. ^ Schubert poetry . In: Pizzicato . ( pizzicato.lu [accessed March 27, 2018]).
  5. ^ Wolfram Goertz: Cologne: Schubert's dramatic simplicity. Retrieved March 27, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Arnold, Sheila
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German concert pianist
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Tiruchirappalli , South India