Aurelius Braun (b. 1995 in Munich) began his musical career at the age of six by playing the cello, doing so until he was seventeen. Between the years 2004-2009 he performed as a soloist in the children’s choir of the Bavarian State Opera and shared the stage with, among others, Michael Volle in Alban Bergs Wozzeck and Jules Massenets Werther.

He started playing the piano at the age of nine. In 2011 he enrolled as a protégé student at the Munich University of Music, under Margarita Hoehenrieder. After graduating from Highschool in 2013, he moved on to working with Prof. Klaus Hellwig at the University of the Arts in Berlin. Since October 2019 he studies at the Mozarteum Salzburg with Prof. Pavel Gililov in the masters program.

In May last year, Aurelius won the audience award at the ZF-musicprize, furthermore he is a prize winner of the 24th International Johannes Brahms Competition in Austria. Together with his Liedduo-partner Susan Zarrabi he was finalist and Special Award Winner at the Wigmore Hall Song Competition 2022 in London.

As a pianist Aurelius has given solo, chamber music and Lied performances in Hamburg (Laeiszhalle, Thalia Theater), Munich (Philharmonie, Residenz, Carl-Orff-Saal in the Gasteig), Berlin (Piano Salon Christophori), Warsaw (Filharmonia) and Kyoto (Alti Hall). Aurelius has worked with numerous singers and has formed a Lied duo with Susan Zarrabi.

Moreover his recitals have been recorded and broadcast by the Bavarian Radio. He is a scholarship recipient of the Hindemith Foundation Berlin and the Ad Infinitum Foundation. In masterclasses and at festivals like the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Turku Music Festival and the Tsinandali Festival he gained new musical insights and inspiration by Emanuel Ax, Bernd Goetzke, Andrzej Jasiński, Hélène Grimaud, András Schiff and Yefim Bronfman.

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