Raphael Dominique Thoene (born 17 March 1980) 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
musicologist.
Biography
Raphael D. Thoene obtained a degree in Composition (
Robert Schumann Hochschule
The Robert Schumann Hochschule (Robert Schumann University of Music and Media) is a school for music studies at the university level located in Düsseldorf. The University has a student body of some 850 coming from over 40 countries.
Forty-seven f ...
in Düsseldorf, Germany) and Music Theory (
Folkwang Hochschule in Essen, Germany). A scholarship recipient, he studied Film Scoring and Composition at the Berklee College of Music, Boston (USA). He also received a PhD in Musicology at the
University of Music and Performing Arts and the
University of Vienna, Austria, writing his PhD thesis on
Malcolm Arnold’s symphonic music.
As a composer, orchestrator and pianist, Thoene received commissions for the Orchesterakademie NRW, the International Contemporary Music Festival Ensemblia in 2005 and the Niederrheinischer Musikherbst in 2006. He orchestrates film and theatre music, and is the author of the musical "Culture", and co-author of the chamber-opera "Der Herr Gevatter" (staged in Saarbrücken, Düsseldorf and Munich).
He is currently on faculty as a Lecturer in Music Theory 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 ...
(Germany).
Works (a selection)
* Brass Symphony No. I for Brass Band, opus 49
* Poèmes dramatique for chamber ensemble, opus 99, based upon the chamber-opera "Der Herr Gevatter"
* Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, opus 108
* Concertino for Trumpet and Orchestra, opus 109
* Sinfonia Concertante for String Orchestra, opus 121
Publications
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External links
Official SiteSpeech at Gresham College London December 2007DDM entry on Raphael Thoene
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Living people
1980 births
German musicologists
German composers
Academic staff of the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover