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Julius Asal

Pianist Julius Asal was appearing as a soloist with major orchestras while still in his early twenties. He is also active as a chamber music player, having founded his own piano trio at 15. Asal was born on February 12, 1997, in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe near Frankfurt am Main. His grandmother was the pop singer Cindy Ellis, and both his parents were skilled instrumentalists. Asal took up the piano at three, teaching himself to play music he heard, and it was not until age eight that he began piano lessons. A year later, he won first prize and a special prize at the Mendelssohn Competition. He studied with Wolfgang Hess at Dr. Hoch's Konservatorium in Frankfurt from 2007 to 2013, racking up several more prizes, and then entered studies with Oliver Kern in a youth program at the Hochschule für Musik under darstellende Kunst in Frankfurt. He went on to the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin in 2017, becoming a finalist that year at the Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition in Bolzano, Italy, and taking first prize at the European Auditions of the Young Concert Artists organization. The latter honor and more competition wins put Asal on the radar of concert bookers, and he has appeared as a recitalist at such major halls as the Alte Oper in Frankfurt, Wigmore Hall in London, the Merkin Concert Hall in New York, and the Konzerthaus in Vienna. He has performed as a soloist with the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie and the Brandenburger Staatsorchester, among other groups, and he has been a draw at major summer events, including the Rheingau Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, and the Oxford Piano Festival. Asal is also a chamber music player, founding his own Arcon Trio in 2012; that group took second prize at the International Johannes Brahms Competition and has performed at the Vienna Musikverein and in Poland. Asal's concerts are novel and may include spoken remarks about the music being played, as well as passages of improvisation. In 2022, Asal released his debut album, Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet, on the IBS Classical label; the album received the Melómano de Oro award from Melómano magazine. Asal returned in 2024 on Deutsche Grammophon with the album Scriabin, Scarlatti.
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