Born in Düsseldorf in 1941 and resident there; Karl-Heinz Zarius is a German composer and music teacher. In 1972/73 he studied composition with Milko Kelemen in Düsseldorf; since 1977 he has been Professor für Allgemeine Musikerziehung at the Hochschule für Musik Köln, Wuppertal division. He has written solo works, chamber and vocal music and concertos; many of his pieces were produced by the WDR. His compositional theme is the integration of speculative structural thinking and sounding ready-mades. In the Cybele catalogue he appears on The Untempered Piano – New Music for Toy Piano (2003), recorded by Bernd Wiesemann.
Karl-Heinz Zarius
Composer
