russian version
Start of Site
Greetings
About Festival
Board of Trustees
Organising Committee
Festival Programme
Applied Research Section
Participants
Glazunov Hall
Partners of the Festival
Impressum

Jörn Peter HIEKEL


Jörn Peter Hiekel graduated from the Cologne and Bonn Universities with degrees in musicology and art history. He also studied double-bass performance and was awarded the degree of doctor.

Since 1988 he has consistently participated as a double-bassist in various professional music ensembles (such as Das Neue Orchester Köln, Ensemble Contra punctus). From 1994—2003 he worked at Breitkopf & Härtel music publishers (Wiesbaden).

Since 1997 Jörn Peter Hiekel has been teaching musicology at Wiesbaden Music Academy, Frankfurt am Main Higher Music School and Heidelberg University. As of April 2003 he works at the Karl Maria von Weber Higher Music School’s Institute of Musicology in Dresden.

Since April 2004 he has been a member of New Music and Music Education Institute’s governing body in Darmshtadt. Since April 2005 he teaches at the Dresden Technical University and simultaneously directs the Karl Maria von Weber Higher Music School’s Institute of New Music.