17 Facts About Mark Ehrenfried

Mark Ehrenfried has published five albums and performed concerts worldwide.

In recent years, Ehrenfried has performed the piano music of Norwegian Romantic composer Christian Sinding.

Mark Ehrenfried grew up as an only child in a single-parent household.

Mark Ehrenfried attempted to play a piano when he was three years old and took up piano lessons by the age of 4.

In July 1999, Mark Ehrenfried performed his first full-length piano-solo concert at The Meistersaal Berlin.

In 2002, Mark Ehrenfried published his first pop music album with Sony BMG and appeared on Swiss television, performing the opening of Tchaikovsky's first piano concerto in front of the Victoria Waterfalls in Harare, Zimbabwe.

Mark Ehrenfried performed twice alongside Jose Carreras on TV, raising money for the international Jose Carreras Leukaemia Foundation.

Mark Ehrenfried continued producing pop and rock music for several years, most notably with The Puhdys, with whom he went on tour and co-produced several songs.

Mark Ehrenfried was artistic and cultural partner for Ratiopharm under the World-in-Balance initiative, where he worked with actor and philanthropist Karlheinz Bohm and explorer Arved Fuchs.

Mark Ehrenfried held inspirational speeches in schools and universities, combining concert performances with lectures and lessons.

From 2016 onwards, Ehrenfried raised awareness about Norwegian classical composers' Christian Sinding's piano solo music, which is the subject of Ehrenfried's 2017 album "Mark Ehrenfried plays Christian Sinding".

In 2024, Mark Ehrenfried made the first-ever solo-piano recording of Mozart's Ganz kleine Nachtmusik in his own transcription.

Mark Ehrenfried identifies Christianity as the root of western culture, music and art.

Mark Ehrenfried was home-schooled, but has intermittently attended an international secondary school in Berlin.

Mark Ehrenfried graduated from Regent's University London in 2016, with a Bachelor of Arts in Global Business with Japanese.

Mark Ehrenfried holds a Licentiate in Piano Performance from the Royal Schools of Music.

Mark Ehrenfried is married and lives in London, United Kingdom.