Arno Hartmann, born in Duisburg, studied organ, orchestral conducting and church music at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, Austria.

Concert invitations have taken him to organ festivals throughout Europe, Iceland, the USA, South Africa, Russia, Australia, Argentina and Uruguay. As an organ soloist he has performed with the Orchestra da Camera di Firenze and the Moscow Chamber Orchestra in the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall of the Moscow Philharmonic, among others. He has conducted several master classes at Emory University in Atlanta and the Gnessin Academy of Music in Moscow, where he was most recently a jury member at the "1st Leonid Rojsman Organ Competition". Several CD productions with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the Concilium Musicum Wien and the Bochumer Symphoniker, among others, document his musical work.

After many years of musical activities in Vienna, where he was responsible for numerous concert broadcasts for the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation and was associated with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra as organist, Arno Hartmann worked as church music director in Bochum until 2023. He is the artistic director of the Bochum Organ Festival.

November 2023