Born 1966 in Essen; Achim Christian Bornhöft is a German composer and sound artist. He studied instrumental and electronic composition at the Folkwang Universität with Nicolaus A. Huber and Dirk Reith and received, among other distinctions, the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Award for his string quartet „Nächte zwischen den Gezeiten“. Since 2006 he has directed the studio for electronic music at the Mozarteum Salzburg; in 2015 he became professor there and head of the Institute for New Music. His compositions join instrumental thinking to electronic sound design and spatial perception.
Achim Christian Bornhöft
Composer
