Artist description Hakenberg's compositions include works for a wide variety of media, from solo chamber music, to stage works, to interactive multimedia installations. Composing in collaboration with amateurs, and the integration of players from the folk music world or of non-western background are particularly important aspects of Hakenberg's creative thought. Full of innovations his work is an ongoing reflection on the forms of artistic behavior of his peers who he finds along an international career that took him from Henze's alternative cultural projects to Harvard's ivory tower, to the particularly Asian mix of cultures in Seoul, to creating new music in Alaska's panhandle archipelago.

Music Style new classical music with world influences

Musical Influences Hans Werner Henze, Bernard Rands, Hwang Byung-ki

Artist History late 70's in Moenchengladbach, Germany: compositions for jazz - rock band / 80's - 1994 in Cologne, Germany: participation and direction of alternative cultural projects; composing with amateurs; inclusion of folk music instruments. / 1994 - ~ 1999 in Cambridge, Massachusetts: development of personal language in formally rich and expressive chamber music works sometimes with theatrical aspects. / 1999 - now in Seoul und Alaska: larger ensembles; music for ensembles of instruments of diverse cultural background; video and film music

Press Reviews "menacingly dramatic", "gentle and solemn" (Berliner Morgenpost, Germany) "programatic, playful", "a musical language worth hearing." (Neue Zeit, Austria) "formally stringent and complete", "ever-changing richness of color" (Koelnische Rundschau, Germany)

Location Juneau, Alaska - USA

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