Michael Stöckigt (born 1957) is a German

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and Defi ...

and pianist. His father is the East German pianist

Siegfried Stöckigt Siegfried Stöckigt (8 December 1929 – 6 July 2012) was a German classical pianist. Life Born Lengenfeld, Stöckigt grew up with a brother three years older than him in the small town of Lengenfeld () in SaxonyVogtland as the son of a busin ...

. In 1973 Michael Stöckigt became a master student in composition of Günter Kochan at the Berlin College of Music "Hanns Eisler". He was awarded in Australia, Austria (International Composition Competition, 1981) and Italy. Today he is a docent in Berlin and at the University of Music and Theatre in Rostock. As a pianist he performed in France,

Syria Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...

and the Netherlands. He composes for musicians such as the Ensemble Sortisatio.

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* https://web.archive.org/web/20110612095321/http://www.berlin.de/ba-neukoelln/presse/archiv/20081125.1015.115110.html 1957 births 20th-century classical composers 21st-century classical composers German classical composers German pianists Mendelssohn Prize winners Academic staff of the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin Living people German male classical composers 20th-century German composers 21st-century German composers German male pianists 21st-century classical pianists 20th-century German male musicians 21st-century German male musicians {{classical-pianist-stub