The Israeli born pianist Arnan Wiesel is a winner of national and international
prizes including Israel's highest prize for young musicians, the Francoix
Shapira Prize. A finalist in the Sydney Piano Competition, and winner
of the Philadelphia Radio Competition his career as solo and chamber
musician has taken him to Australia, USA, Europe, Asia and Israel.
A graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music he studied with Seymour
Lipkin, Gary Graffman, Pnina Salzman, Arthur Rubinstein, Alfred Brendel,
Radu Lupo and Daniel Barenboim among others. He has played with all
the major Israeli orchestras including the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra,
Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra and Haifa Symphony Orchestra and has appeared
there in many solo and chamber music recitals. A frequent guest at international
festivals he has had regular invitations to the Schleswig-Holstein,
Insel Hombroich and Münchner Klaviersommer Festivals in Germany
and the Israel Festival.
In Europe appearances include concertos with the Stuttgart Philharmonic,
Badischer Staatskapelle, Hamburg Mozart Orchestra, Deutsche Kammer-akademie
Neuss, Württembergische Kammerphilarmonie, Danska Sinfonietta and
a tour with the Rubin Academy Orchestra playing Bach d minor concerto,
and recitals in such important music centres as the Concertgebouw in
Amsterdam, Münchner Gasteig, Frankfurt Alte Oper, Hamburg, Stuttgart,
Bayreuth, Brussels, Copenhagen, Zurich, Geneva, Lisbon, Budapest and
Moscow. In the USA he appeared in Carnegie Hall in New York as well
as with the Curtis Orchestra. In Australia he played with the Sydney
Symphony Orchestra and conducted from the piano on a tour with the Australian
Chamber Orchestra.
An accomplished and enthusiastic chamber music player Arnan Wiesel has
formed the 'Duo Corda' with his wife, Australian harpist Alice Giles
- an unusual combination which has received enthusiastic response from
public and critics alike. He appears often with his father, cellist
Uzi Wiesel. Since taking up residence in Australia, where he is lecturer
in piano at the ANU School of Music, he has performed with the Australia
Ensemble, the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Canberra Symphony Orchestra,
in the Barossa Festival with Jane Peters, the Adelaide Festival and
in the Canberra Chamber Music Festival.
Starting in 2004 he will be embarking on a series of concerts of the
complete J.S.Bach keyboard works. Arnan Wiesel has made studio recordings
and live broadcasts for many radio stations including German WDR, SWF,
and SDR, Radio Zurich, WFLN Philadelphia, Israel Radio, RTBF Belgium
and Radio Hilversum Holland. He can be heard on the following CDs: Works
for Piano by J.S.Bach (Aulos/ Precosia), Harp and Piano (Musikado),
'Diary' for piano by Georg Kröll (WDR/BVHAAST).
School of Music faculty member since 2001.
