Pianist Aris Alexander Blettenberg studied piano, conducting, and chamber music with Lars Vogt and Bruno Weil in Munich, Salzburg, and Hanover, among others. He won the International Beethoven Piano Competition 2021 in Vienna and the International Hans von Bülow Competition 2015 in Meiningen. His engagements regularly take the young musician to major concert halls such as the Berlin Philharmonic, the Wigmore Hall in London, and the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. He is a guest at festivals such as the Lucerne Festival, the Klavier-Festival Ruhr, and the Heidelberger Frühling. Blettenberg has collaborated with artists including Julia Fischer, Christian Tetzlaff, and Julian Rachlin, as well as with ensembles such as the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra under Jonathan Darlington and the Chamber Orchestra of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Blettenberg received further artistic inspiration from Rudolf Buchbinder and Gerhard Oppitz, among others. He is also the recipient of the Bavarian Art Promotion Prize and has been principal conductor of the Munich Chamber Opera since 2024.

