Ludger Hofmann-Engl

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Ludger Hofmann-Engl (* 1964 in Bamberg ) is a German pianist and composer as well as a scientist and social worker .

education

Hofmann-Engl attended the Gymnasium Fridericianum Erlangen . He studied composition at the Meistersinger Conservatory in Nuremberg , piano at the Institute for Sacred Music in Erlangen, and later musicology , philosophy and theoretical physics at the TU Berlin . In 2003 he received his PhD in psychology from Keele University . Hofmann-Engl lived in London from 1992 to 2015 , where he worked as a pianist, composer, scientist and social worker.

From 1995 to 2000 he was chairman of the Chameleon Group of Composers, which was organized as an association . The main interest of this self-help group of composers living in Croydon (South London) was to circumvent or subvert the traditional structures of the music business - music publishers and music industry - in order to be able to work independently and build new structures. The group organized numerous festivals and concerts with contemporary music. The word Chameleon as the name of the group was chosen to reflect the diversity of compositional styles among the members.

Ludger Hofmann-Engl has been running a website as an online platform for music, music theory and music psychology since 1999 . The core of the group at that time consisted of Ludger Hofmann-Engl, co-founder and Henri Pousseur student Peter Anthony Monk, the composer Giles Easterbrook and Christopher Wood. In the active time of the group between the founding year 1995 and 2000 there were 30 world premieres as well as collaborations with groups in the USA.

From 1997 to 2000 the members participated in music education projects sponsored by the UK Government in connection with school or educational programs.

Hofmann-Engl currently lives in Krakow .

Publications (selection)

  • Second symphonic work , Vienna Modern Masters 1991 (VMM 3003), performed by the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Szymon Kawalla
  • Two pieces ( No. 1. and No. 2. ) on Music from 6 Continents (1991 Series) , Vienna Modern Masters 1991 (now Naxos digital )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Unheard music" in the BKA: Ludger Hofmann-Engl, piano. taz , 1994.
  2. ^ Review of Paul Reader: Ludger Hofmann-Engl, piano. Croyweb , 2006.
  3. ↑ Biography deposited with Chameleon Group, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Hofmann-Engl, Ludger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pianist, composer, scientist and social worker
DATE OF BIRTH 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Bamberg