Volker Heyn

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Heyn, Volker (b. December 13, 1938, Karlsruhe). German composer of mostly stage, orchestral, chamber, vocal, and performance works that have been performed throughout the world. Mr. Heyn studied voice with Walter Neugebauer in Karlsruhe from 1957-60 and acting at the Savitzki Actor's School in Melbourne from 1961-63. He studied guitar privately with Antonio Losada in Sydney and studied music theory with Don Andrews at the Sydney Conservatorium from 1966-70. He then studied guitar at the Musikhochschule Karlsruhe from 1971-77, where he also studied composition with Eugen Werner Velte and was a member of his Gruppe für Kreative Musik. His honors include fellowships from the Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg (1981) and the Heinrich-Strobel-Stiftung in Freiburg/Breisgau (1982) and the Rolf-Liebermann-Opernstipendium (1988, a commission to write Geisterbahn). His Ferro canto, a commissioned work, has twice been canceled from Donaueschingen (1989, 1991) and remains unperformed. He lived in Australia from 1960-71 and there worked various jobs, including one as a shift-laborer in a steel-working factory, where he had his first encounters of the "metallic kind", which led him to experiments involving the sounds of hard and soft edges of reverberating metal. Moreover, he was a member of a traveling group that presented original stage productions, both with and without music, for two years. He has lived in Germany since 1971. He lectured at Darmstadt in 1984 and 1986 and gave concerts

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Sirènes

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Sirenes

Darmstadt Aural Documents, Box 4: Pianists

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TRANSFER

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Musik fuer Akkordeon: Gubaidulina, Huber, Heyn, Staebler, Koch schwann 3-1356-2 H1

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Calliope-calls, Signum SIG X74-00

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Sirènes (Pellegrini-Quartett)

Darmstadt Aural Documents: Box 4

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Villa-Lobos: Etude No. 11 & No.12

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Wittener Tage Für Neue Kammermusik 1991

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Musik für Akkordeon

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Friedrich Gauwerky, cello

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