Lutz-Werner Hesse

Born in Bonn-Bad Godesberg in 1955; Lutz-Werner Hesse is a composer and lives in Wuppertal. He studied school music and composition with Günter Fork and Jürg Baur at the Musikhochschule Köln and musicology at the University of Cologne, where he took his doctorate. From 1984 he taught at the Wuppertal campus of the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln, latterly as professor, and headed the campus as managing director from 2009 to 2021. His works include four string quartets, four symphonies and “Vita di San Francesco” for organ and thirteen gongs, which has been performed more than eighty times. On the CD “Ich habe dich gewählt …” (Musicaphon) the Sinfonieorchester Wuppertal plays under Julia Jones, among others.