Born in Mannheim in 1951; Volker Blumenthaler is a composer and academic teacher. From 1969 he studied cello with Hans Adomeit and composition with Hans Vogt in Mannheim, and from 1972 composition with Jürg Baur as well as cello with Wolfgang Mehlhorn and Johannes Goritzki at the Hochschule für Musik Köln. From 1979 to 1989 he taught music theory at the Hochschule für Musik Köln, and from 1992 to 2016 composition and music theory in Nuremberg; in 2014 the Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg appointed him honorary professor. In 1997 he gave guest lectures at Harvard University. In 1982 he held a fellowship at the Villa Massimo and received the Kompositionspreis der Stadt Stuttgart, and in 1987 an international composition prize in Geneva for his symphony “Leviathan”. His focus lies on chamber music, vocal compositions and chamber opera. At Cybele Records he is represented on the album Campanula (1995).
Volker Blumenthaler
Composer
