Ortwin Benninghoff

Ortwin Benninghoff (* 1946 in Oberhausen ) is a German composer and conductor .

Life

Benninghoff received his examination in 1972 after high school and university studies in Düsseldorf . Until 1991 he was a church musician in Oberhausen and from 1974 to 1996 lecturer at the Gerhard Mercator University in Duisburg and from 1993 to 2000 at the National Peter Tchaikovsky Academy of Ukraine in Kiev . In 1999 he was appointed professor.

He was co-founder and from 1988–2004 one of the directors of the “Ensemble New Music at the University of Duisburg” and the “Academic Concerts”. In 2002 he co-founded the Kiev Chamber Academy, of which he is now chief conductor. He plays concerts with the orchestra at home and abroad (including in the USA, Ukraine, Poland, Switzerland, Sweden and Japan).

From 1992 to 1999 he was head of the Lektorat West of the Neue Musik Verlag. He was a co-founder and until 2003 partner of the Int. Sternschen music publishers.

Benninghoff has been a member of the Esslingen am Neckar artists' guild since 1994 and was a member of the jury of the NRW competition “Young people composed” from 1988 to 1998. From 1999 to 2004 he was chairman of the Association of Democratic Composers (IDK). From 2004 to 2009 he was co-director of the “Silesian Composers” festival and from 2009 to 2011 chief conductor of the Kiev Chamber Opera. Since 2013 he has been a church musician at the Ev. Resurrection Church Oberhausen.

honors and awards

• 1993: 3rd prize in the composition competition of the East German Cultural Council
• 1996: 1st prize in the composition competition of the East German Cultural Council
• 1998: Johann Wenzel Stamitz Special Prize .