Born in 1962; Hans W. Koch is a composer and sound artist who lives in Cologne. From 1984 to 1988 he studied music, history and physics at the Pädagogische Hochschule Weingarten, and from 1988 to 1995 composition with Johannes Fritsch at the Cologne Musikhochschule. He is professor of sound at the Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln; in 2007 he was visiting professor of composition and experimental sound practices at the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles, and since 2012 he has taught hybrid sound composition and extended systems at the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf. As a curator he ran the series BrückenMusik from 1999 to 2012 and has run the series Reihe M since 2009; since 2010 he has been on the board of ON – neue musik köln. On the Cybele album DEGEM Vol. 9 – Orpheus 400 (2007), which marks the 400th anniversary of Monteverdi’s “L’Orfeo” with twenty readings of the Orpheus myth, his piece “orfeus@home” (2007) opens the sequence.
Hans W. Koch
Composer / Sound artist
