Detmold Hochschule für Musik

Alfredo Perl was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1965. He studied in his hometown under Carlos Botto and later under Günter Ludwig in Köln and Maria Curcio in London. Since his first performance at the age of nine, he has performed in numerous concerts and has won many important competitions, which soon made him one of the leading pianists of his generation.

In 1996 and 1997 he performed several Beethoven Sonatas in the Wigmore Hall in London, as well as in Santiago and Moscow. At the same time, his BMG Arte Nova CD with 32 Beethoven Sonatas and the Diabelli Variations was released. The following was written about Perl's Beethoven interpretation: "with sparkling freshness, extraordinary tenderness and unaffected brilliance he demonstrates that, even in these prosaic times, the great tradition of Beethoven playing lives on." (Joachim Kaiser).

More recordings with the same record label include recitals; three CDs with music by Franz Liszt, as well as chamber music with Ralph Manno; the Sonatas for clarinet and piano by Brahms, and the Sonatas for piano and cello by Beethoven with Guido Schiefen. The artist also recorded Grieg's Piano Concerto and the Symphony Concertante by Szymanowski.

Alfredo Perl's worldwide concert performances have taken him to the most important concert venues: Barbican Centre in London; Concertgebouw Amsterdam; Rudolfinum in Prague; Großer Musikvereinssaal in Vienna; Herkulessaal München; Hamarikyu Asahi Hall Tokyo; Teatro Colón Buenos Aires; National Arts Centre Ottawa and Sydney Town Hall. Early 1997, the artist performed a series of solo concerts as part of the first cycle of the Hypo Cultural Foundation programme.

These tours took place in the concert houses of Berlin; the Hamburg Music Hall; Gewandhaus in Leipzig; Düsseldorf Tonhalle; Alte Oper Frankfurt and Prince Regent Theatre in München. He

has performed at renowned festivals like the Rheingau Music Festival; the Bath International Music Festival; the Schwetzinger Festival; the Kissinger Summer and Haydn Festival in Eisenstadt.

Alfredo Perl has played with many well-known orchestras, among them the London Symphony Orchestra; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Orchestre de la Suisse Romande; Residentieorkest Den Haag; Melbourne Symphony Orchestra; Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, as well as the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg and Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra (MDR). In September 1997 he performed his debut in the Promenade Concerts in the Royal Albert Hall in London.

In 2002,,Alfredo Perl along with the Münchnen Symphony performed the complete Piano Concertos of Beethoven in Germany: "With this cycle Alfredo Perl has confirmed his place in the upper class of Beethoven interpretations". (Süddeutsche Zeitung, 29.01.2002). In October 2002 he performed Mendelssohn's Piano Concerto No 2 as soloist with the Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig under Herbert Blomstedt in the London Barbican Centre to great acclaim. In the 2002/2003 season he was invited to the Dutch Philharmonic Orchestra; the Vienna Symphony Orchestra; the Stuttgart Philharmonic; the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Sydney Symphony.