Swiss pianist Ariane Haering began her studies in her hometown of La Chaux-de-Fonds with Cécile Pantillon and Catherine Courvoisier. She subsequently spent a year at the University of North Carolina, where she studied with Clifton Matthews, before returning to Switzerland to complete her education in Lausanne with Brigitte Meyer. She graduated in 1996 at the age of just twenty, and was awarded the ‘1er Prix de Virtuosité avec les félicitations du Jury’.
She is continuously expanding her repertoire, which soon will encompass five centuries of music, and subsequently shares the stage with artists such as Benjamin Schmid, Dimitri Ashkenazy, Clemens Hagen, Veronika Hagen, Matthias Schorn, Matthias Bartolomey, Ramon Jaffé, Ib Hausmann, Bernard Richter, Benjamin Herzl and the Doric, Brodsky, Petersen, Casal and Mozarteum quartets.
In 2015, she founded the ariadita duo with pianist Ardita Statovci. Their repertoire spans from J. S. Bach to J. M. Staud and regularly features commissioned works by contemporary composers. The duo focuses on arrangements of major symphonic works for one and two pianos by Beethoven, Brahms, Liszt, Honegger, Shostakovich, Ravel and Stravinsky. ‘ariadita duo’ has performed at the Elbphilharmonie, the Festspielhaus Erl, the Diabelli Sommer Mattsee, the Musiktage Mondsee, the Aspekte Festival Salzburg, the ‘Jardins musicaux’ in Switzerland, in Kiruna, Sweden, and at the CSO Ada Ankara, Turkey.
In 2016, Ariane Haering became a permanent member of the Alban Berg Ensemble Wien. Since its inception, this ensemble has organised its own concert series in Vienna, first in the Brahms Hall of the Musikverein, then in the Reaktor and the Josephinum, and since 2025 in the Schubert Hall of the Konzerthaus. In addition to its international concert activities, the ABEW organised the BergFrühling festival at Lake Ossiach and the BergFest im Reaktor in Vienna. 2020 and 2024 saw the release of her CD productions for Deutsche Grammophon (Schönberg-Strauss-Mahler) and DECCA (O Lungo Drom, R.Y. Gawlick) respectively.
In 2020, Ariane Haering collaborated with the cellist Matthias Bartolomey and violinist Benjamin Schmid to perform Beethoven's complete piano trios and violin and cello sonatas in a series of concerts and livestreams in Vienna and Kempten.
As a guest of festivals in Europe, Asia, North and South America, and Africa, Ariane Haering has performed in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Capri and Monte Carlo, Risor, Middleburg, Mattsee and Mondsee, Miami, Bogota, Havana, Stellenbosch and Cape Town, Kaoshiung and Seoul, as well as Tokyo and Osaka, at the Musikhalle and the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg.
Her performances at the Salzburg Festival, the Salzburg Mozart Week, the Mozarteum Foundation, the Vienna Musikverein and Konzerthaus, and the Ruhr Piano Festival have cemented her reputation as an international artist.
Other solo highlights include concerts with the Houston Symphony Orchestra under the baton of principal conductor Hans Graf, the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra under Bernhard Gueller, the Mozarteum Orchestra under Ralf Weikert, the Philharmonie Salzburg under Elisabeth Fuchs, with the SAOS, at the Tonhalle Zurich, the Großes Festspielhaus Salzburg, the KKL Lucerne, and the Casino Bern and Basel.
Ariane Haering has been a senior lecturer at the Mozarteum University Salzburg since autumn 2025.
Together with the renowned chansonnier and multi-instrumentalist Pascal Auberson and jazz pianist, composer and arranger Gaspard Glaus, she developed a cross-genre programme entitled ‘Vie rêvée, Éros Thanatos and the Sun’.
A mother of four, Ariane Haering lives in Salzburg and invests equal amounts of energy in the well-being of her family and in realising her musical dreams.