Arno Paduch (* in Hattersheim am Main) is a German cornettist, conductor and musicologist. After completing his high school diploma at the Burggymnasium in Friedberg (Hesse), he studied musicology in Frankfurt am Main, and subsequently studied cornett and historical performance at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. While studying in Basel, he received a lecture for cornett and ensemblem music at the Department of Early Music of the Felix-Mendelssohn-Bartholdy University of Music in Leipzig, where he is still active today. In 1995 he founded the Johann Rosenmüller Ensemble for Music of the 17th Century in Leipzig.