Schoellhorn Johannes

Schoellhorn Johannes (1962)

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.
Johannes Schöllhorn is performed by many international Soloists, Ensembles
and Orchestras like Ensemble Modern, Ensemble l’instant donné, ensemble
recherche, Neue Vocalsolisten ensemble ascolta, das Neue Ensemble, the
Radio Symphony Orchestras of the WDR and SWR. He awarded many prizes
like the Comitée de lecture of the Ensemble Intercontemporain in 1997 and
the Praetorius Prize 2009. His chamber opera "les petites filles modèles" was
played many times in Paris and France and had its premiere at the Opera de
Bastille in 1997. In 2008 he was participant of the “into”-project in Hong Kong.
Johannes Schöllhorns music has a wide range of genres from chamber music,
vocal music and orchestra music to music for theatre. Besides his own
compositions he 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 from 2001 to 2009 he was
Professor for composition at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover
and Director of the Institut für neue Musik. Since October 2009 he is Professor
for composition and director of the Institut für Neue Musik at the Hochschule
für Musik in Köln. Johannes Schöllhorn gave several composition courses at
the Fondation Royaumont (F) and at the Bartók-Festival (HU), in the Ictus-
Seminar (B), at the Conservatoire de Paris, the Conservatory of Music in Tianjin
(China), the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing (China), the Takefu-
Festival (Japan), the Tokyo Ondai University (Japan) and the Seoul
Philharmonic orchestra (Korea).