Daniel Arkadij Gerzenberg

Daniel Arkadij Gerzenberg is a poet, pianist, and librettist. He began his career as a pianist in 2009, performing in a duo with his brother Anton Gerzenberg. They have performed at major festivals such as the Progetto Martha Argerich, the Schleswig-Holstein Musikfestival, and the Klavierfestival Ruhr, as well as at the Konzerthaus Wien, the National Concert Hall Taipei, the Auditorium Bolzano, the Laeiszhalle Hamburg, and the Philharmonies in Munich and Essen. He has performed as a soloist with international orchestras and toured with M. Argerich, L. Zilberstein, and A. Gerzenberg, subsequently producing recordings for EMI, NDR, Radio France, and the BBC. In 2016, he began studying vocal accompaniment with W. Rieger at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin. He won the Lied Prize at the 9th Nadia and Lili Boulanger International Singing-Piano Competition with soprano S. Burgos. At the Franz Schubert and Modern Music International Competition, he won second prize and the Special Prize for the best interpretation of a new Lied (I. Mundry). He has been invited to perform as an accompanist at the Heidelberger Frühling, the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, the Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin, the Verbier Festival, and the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg. In his poetry, he explores themes of identity, anti-Semitism, and sexual violence. In 2023, he published a collection of poetry entitled wiedergutmachungsjude (Reparation Jew) with Matthes & Seitz Berlin, which was staged in 2024 at the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin by D. Aloni. Since 2018, he has been teaching poetry at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin. Working with contemporary composers, he combines poetry and music. In 2019, Mr. Pintscher commissioned him to write poems for the Ensemble intercontemporain. In 2020, they began working on the creation of an opera. Daniel Arkadij Gerzenberg then wrote his first libretto, Nuit sans Aube, which premiered at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden and the Théâtre National de l'Opéra-Comique.