Julian Arp was born in Soltau in 1981and received his first cello lessons at the age of six. Currently he continues his studies in a chamber music class with Professor Eberhard Feltz. Julian also attends master classes regularly gaining important artistic insight from György Kurtàg, Ferenc Rados, Bernhard Greenhouse, Steven Isserlis, Lynn Harrell and Ralph Kirshbaum.
Julian Arp gave his solo debut at the Schwetzinger Festspiele in 1997, and has since then performed extensively in Germany and all over Europe as a soloist and a chamber musician. He has played with the Georgian Chamber Orchestra, the Berlin Sinfonics, the Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin and the Shenzhen Philharmonic Orchestra as well as performing at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Rheingau Music Festival and the Beethovenfest Bonn.
Julian has been awarded many prizes and scholarships including the Boris Pergamenschikow in 2004. From 1996 to 2001 he was recipient of a scholarship from the Jürgen-Ponto Stiftung and from 2001 to 2007 he held a scholarship from the Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst. 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.
Julian Arp is founder and artistic director of the Festival Zeitkunst for chamber music and contemporary literature in Berlin.
