Johannes Schöllhorn
Born in 1962, he studied with Klaus Huber, Emanuel Nunes and Mathias Spahlinger and musical theory with Peter Förtig. He also attended conducting courses with Peter Eötvös. He awarded many prizes in compsition concourses and he is laureate of the Foundation Strobel at the SWR, of the Gaudeamus Foundation and the Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg. In 1995 he was winner of the Comitée de lecture of the Ensemble Intercontemprain and in 1997 he composed "Rondo" for violin and chamber orchestra for the ensemble. his chamber opera "les petites filles modèles" was played many times in in Paris and France and had in 1997 its premiere at the Opera de Bastille.
Besides his own compositions Johannes Schöllhorn is also working on different kinds of transcriptions, i.e. he has made an own version of Pierre Boulez' "... explosante-fixe ...". Johannes Schöllhorn was teaching from 1995 to 2000 at the Musikhochschule Zürich-Winterthur (CH). He was conductor of the Ensemble für Neue Musik at the Musikhochschule Freiburg (until 2004) and since 2001 he is Professor for composition at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover. Johannes Schöllhorn gave several composition courses at the Fondation Royaumont (F), in the Ictus-Seminar (B), at the Irino-Foundation (Japan), at the Bartók-Festival (HU) at the Conservatory of Music in Tianjin and the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing (China).
Besides his own compositions Johannes Schöllhorn is also working on different kinds of transcriptions, i.e. he has made an own version of Pierre Boulez' "... explosante-fixe ...". Johannes Schöllhorn was teaching from 1995 to 2000 at the Musikhochschule Zürich-Winterthur (CH). He was conductor of the Ensemble für Neue Musik at the Musikhochschule Freiburg (until 2004) and since 2001 he is Professor for composition at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover. Johannes Schöllhorn gave several composition courses at the Fondation Royaumont (F), in the Ictus-Seminar (B), at the Irino-Foundation (Japan), at the Bartók-Festival (HU) at the Conservatory of Music in Tianjin and the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing (China).