David Arden was born in Los Angeles. He received early piano instruction from Arthur Frazer in San Diego. Arden went on to study with Aube Tzerko at UCLA (Los Angeles), Lucy Brown[12] at Peabody Conservatory of Music (Baltimore), Frederic Gevers at the Royal Flemish Music Conservatory (Antwerp, Belgium), and Aloys Kontarsky at the Cologne Musikhochschule (Cologne, Germany).[13] Arden received his Concert Diploma (Hoger Diploma) from the Royal Flemish Music Conservatory in 1974 and subsequently won a number of awards: 1st place at the Tenuto-Young Virtuosos Competition (Brussels, Belgium);[14] 1st place at the Gaudeamus International Competition for Interpreters of Contemporary Music (Rotterdam, the Netherlands); and the Kranichsteiner Musikpreis[15] (Darmstadt, Germany). Arden has performed in concert and radio/TV broadcasts in Europe, the Far East and South Asia, South America, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and the US.[16] His commercial recordings have covered piano repertoire of George Gershwin,[17] Leonard Bernstein,[18] Samuel Barber,[19] André Previn,[20] Henryk Górecki,[21] Arvo Pärt,[22] Galina Ustvolskaya,[23] Luciano Berio,[24] Earle Brown[25] and Carson Kievman.[26]

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