Johannes Schöllhorn (born 30 June 1962) is a contemporary German composer. Born in Murnau am Staffelsee, Schöllhorn grew up in

Marktoberdorf Marktoberdorf () is the capital of the Bavarian district of Ostallgäu in the ''Regierungsbezirk'' of Swabia. Marktoberdorf is near Kempten, Füssen, known for the castle Neuschwanstein, Bad Wörishofen, and Schongau. The nearest larger city is K ...

. He studied

musical composition Musical composition can refer to an original piece or work of music, either vocal or instrumental, the structure of a musical piece or to the process of creating or writing a new piece of music. People who create new compositions are called ...

with

Klaus Huber Klaus Huber (30 November 1924 – 2 October 2017) was a Swiss composer and academic based in Basel and Freiburg. Among his students were Brian Ferneyhough, Michael Jarrell, Younghi Pagh-Paan, Toshio Hosokawa, Wolfgang Rihm, and Kaija Saariaho. ...

Emmanuel Nunes Emmanuel Nunes (31 August 1941 – 2 September 2012) was a Portuguese composer who lived and worked in Paris from 1964. Biography Nunes was born in Lisbon, where he studied composition, first from 1959 to 1963 at the Academia de Amadores de Mús ...

and

Mathias Spahlinger Mathias Spahlinger (born 15 October 1944 in Frankfurt) is a German composer. His work takes place in a field of tension between the most diverse musical influences and styles: between Renaissance music and Jazz, between musique concrète and Web ...

and

music theory Music theory is the study of the practices and possibilities of music. ''The Oxford Companion to Music'' describes three interrelated uses of the term "music theory". The first is the "rudiments", that are needed to understand music notation (ke ...

with Peter Förtig at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg. He also attended

conducting Conducting is the art of directing a musical performance, such as an orchestral or choral concert. It has been defined as "the art of directing the simultaneous performance of several players or singers by the use of gesture." The primary duti ...

courses with

Péter Eötvös Péter Eötvös ( hu, Eötvös Péter, ; born 2 January 1944) is a Hungarian composer, conductor and teacher. Eötvös was born in Székelyudvarhely, Transylvania, then part of Hungary, now Romania. He studied composition in Budapest and Colog ...

. He taught at the Zurich University of the Arts from 1995 to 2000 and from 2001 to 2009 as a professor for composition at the

Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media (german: Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover, italics=unset, abbreviated to HMTMH) is a university of performing arts and media in Hanover, the capital of Lower Saxony, Germany. Dating ...

. Since 2009 he has been a professor at the

Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln The Cologne University of Music ( is a music college in Cologne, Germany. Founded in 1850, it is Europe's largest academy of music. History The academy was founded by Ferdinand Hiller in 1850 as ''Conservatorium der Musik in Coeln''. In 1895 Ger ...

Prizes

* 1997: Comité de Lecture of the Ensemble intercontemporain * 2009: .

Notable students

* Farzia Fallah (born 1980), composer from Tehran, living in Germany * Georgia Koumará (born 1991), Greek composer, living in Germany

External links

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Extensive interview with Johannes Schöllhorn
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Johannes Schöllhorn
on Éditions Lamoine
Johannes Schöllhorn
on

Centre de documentation de la musique contemporaine The Centre de documentation de la musique contemporaine (Cdmc) is a French association based in Paris. Founded in 1977, it is an important resource centre for contemporary music. Introduction The Centre is a public documentation centre for con ...

Johannes Schöllhorn
on Goethe Institut {{DEFAULTSORT:Schollhorn, Johannes 20th-century classical composers German music educators Academic staff of the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover Academic staff of the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln 1962 births Living people People from Upper Bavaria People from Garmisch-Partenkirchen (district) 20th-century German composers