Jens Joneleit

Born in Offenbach am Main on 17 September 1968; Jens Joneleit is a composer. From 1990 to 1992 he studied at the University of South Dakota and from 1992 to 1997 at the University of Wisconsin, where he took the Master of Fine Arts; his teachers included Lewis Hamvas, Robert Marek, Stephen Yarbrough, Joel Naumann and Roscoe Mitchell. In 2006 he received the Ernst von Siemens Composer Prize and in 2009 the Kulturpreis of the town of Rodgau. His output comprises the operas “Der Brand. Proscaenium emblematicum” (premiered in Stuttgart in 2007), “Piero – Ende der Nacht” (Münchener Biennale 2008) and “Metanoia. Über das Denken hinaus”, which Daniel Barenboim conducted at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in 2010 in a staging by Christoph Schlingensief; to these are added orchestral works such as Le tout, le rien for 27 soloists (2005) and Dithyrambes (2009) as well as string quartets, a piano trio and ensemble pieces. In the Cybele catalogue an album of its own is devoted to him: New Chamber Music: Works by Jens Joneleit appeared in 2002.