Arne Gieshoff

Born in 1988 in Bad Soden, Germany. Arne Gieshoff’s works have been performed by ensembles such as the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Collegium Novum Zürich. His oeuvre ranges from instrumental compositions to site-specific installations that incorporate found sound objects, field recordings, interactive electronics and sounds produced live by singers and musicians. Gieshoff’s work has received numerous awards, including the Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Prize, the Mendelssohn Scholarship, the Hans Werner Henze Foundation Scholarship and the Darmstadt Music Prize. In 2024, he received a scholarship from the Free State of Bavaria for the International House of Artists Villa Concordia in Bamberg. He received his compositional training at the Royal College of Music in London, among others. He has lived in Darmstadt since 2019, where he teaches composition at the Akademie für Tonkunst.

Arne Gieshoff teaches at the Darmstadt Summer Course for the second time in 2025.