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Artist
Martin Herchenröder
5+ albums
germaninstrumentalcontemporary classicalorganClassical
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Bio English / German Born in 1961 in Iserlohn / Germany, Martin Herchenröder studied organ (with Ludger Lohmann and Wolfgang Stockmeier) music theory (with Dieter Gostomsky) and composition (with Jürg Baur and Hans Werner Henze) at the Cologne Musikhochschule, and engaged in supplementary studies in Musicology and German at the Cologne University. In 1994 Martin Herchenröder was appointed professor of music theory at the Siegen University in Germany in the fields of research and teaching, including composition, orchestration, music theory, music of the 20th century and organ music. He has also been teaching at the Cologne Musikhochschule from 1992 to 2009. In 1998 he was invited to visit as a guest artist the School of Music of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver B.C. / Canada. In 2008 he visited as a guest professor and Fulbright scholar the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester, NY. Since then he is a regular guest at Eastman. Additionally, he works as a guest professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen since 2015. He was invited to teach at various universities and schools throughout Europe, Asia and North America, including the Chopin Music Academy, Warsaw, the University of Chicago, the McGill University, Montreal, and the Juilliard School of Music, New York. Martin Herchenröder’s compositions have been performed in Europe, Asia and America, e.g. by Markus Stockhausen (trumpet), Alban Gerhardt and Michael Sanderling (cello), Han
