Julian Arp
Julian Arp was born in Soltau, 1981, and received his first cello lessons at the age of six. For many years his teacher was Edwin Koch, before he became a student of Prof. Boris Pergamenschikow at the Academy of Music ‘Hanns Eisler’, Berlin in 2001. Currently he is continuing his studies with Prof. David Geringas. He also attends master classes regularly, gaining important artistic insight from György Kurtàg, Bernhard Greenhouse, Steven Isserlis, Lynn Harrell and Ralph Kirshbaum.
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, at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Rheingau Music Festival, at the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the Beethovenfest Bonn, in Beauvais and in Prussia Cove. Many radio-broadcasts were produced for the NDR, the SWF, the WDR and the RBB. For the Freiburg Music Forum he recorded a CD together with the clarinetist Daniel Bollinger and the pianist Gerhard Vielhaber with whom he founded the BOVIARTrio in 1997.
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 is now a fellow of the Villa Musica. As a prize winner at the eleventh Deutscher Musikinstrumentenfonds competition of the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben he performs on a cello made by Guiseppe Antonio Rocca, Turin 1839, on generous loan from a Hamburg family.
