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Biography
Arne Gieshoff (*1988, Germany) is currently completing an undergraduate degree at the Royal College of Music in London, studying composition with Kenneth Hesketh and Second Study piano with John Byrne. He holds an RCM Foundation Scholarship and is supported by the Gymnasium Moguntium Foundation and the Lions Club Wiesbaden Mattiacum.
Arne received first lectures in composition from Gerhard Fischer-Münster at the Peter-Cornelius-Konservatorium Mainz where he studied piano with Uwe Zeutzheim as well. From 2003 to 2009 he studied with the Dutch composer Cord Meijering. He attended summer courses and masterclasses led by Hanspeter Kyburz, Theo Brandmüller, Martin Christoph Redel, Marcel Wengler, Alasdair Nicolson, Sally Beamish and Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and is a multiple awarded winner of the national contest Composition of the Jeunesses Musicales Germany.
In 2007 he wrote Nachtreise which was commissioned by the Luxembourg Sinfonietta on the occasion of Luxembourg and the Greater Region being the European Capital of Culture. Subsequently Nachtreise was performed at the Frankfurter Hof (Mainz), Arsenal (Metz) and Philharmonie Luxembourg as well as on the tour of the Luxembourg Sinfonietta to China. Broadcasts on radio channel SR2 and a CD release by the Luxembourg Society for Contemporary Music followed. Amongst these and other occasions Gieshoffs compositions were performed at the Southbank Centre and at the National Portrait Gallery by ensembles such as the Ossian Ensemble, Ensemble Est!Est!!Est!!! and the Hebrides Ensemble.
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