Arne Dreske studied Arabic-Islamic culture and musicology at the Westfälische Wilhelms- Universität Münster for a year before moving to the University of Hildesheim to study Cultural Studies and aesthetic practice with a major in music. After his B.A. he followed up with an M.A. at the Center for World Music, studying „musik.welt – Cultural Diversity in Musical Education“. In his thesis he wrote about „Realities and conditions for success of cultural work from the perspective of cultural workers in Malawi“.

He is a passionate musician and music teacher. With his world fusion band Evelyn Kryger and other groups, he plays at festivals such as JazzBaltica, Fusion Festival and the Rudolstadt Festival throughout Europe. He has been the permanent pianist in the Volkswagen BigBand for over 10 years.
As a piano teacher with a focus on jazz/rock/pop and world music, he attaches great importance to teaching musical diversity, an inclusive, transcultural approach and reflecting on European listening habits. He held several teaching positions for piano at the University of Hildesheim and also worked at the district music school in Celle as department head for keyboard instruments.

For the cultural office of the city of Hanover, he traveled to the twin town of Blantyre several times for concerts, workshops and as a project coordinator and cultural ambassador. After various music projects in Kenya, Uganda and the Côte d’Ivoire, he traveled through Malawi, South Africa and Ghana with the documentary filmmaker Carina Nickel for 4 months to shoot a series of portraits about local cultural workers, for which he was responsible for interviews, sound recordings and film music among other things.

From May 2023 to March 2024 he has been working as a research assistant in the team of the DFG research project „Queering Jewish Cultural Heritage in Europe“, primarily as an assistant to Dr. Miranda Crowdus.

Since April 2024, he has been project coordinator of the DAAD Graduate School „Performing Sustainability. Cultures and Development in West-Africa“ at the Center for World Music.