Friedrich Heinrich Kern, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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German composer
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Place of Birth: Ludwigshafen, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
About Friedrich Heinrich Kern
- Friedrich Heinrich Kern (born March 19, 1980 in Ludwigshafen) is a German composer, pianist, and glass harmonica player. Kern began his studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Mannheim where he graduated with a Diplom in Music Composition and Piano.
- His principal teachers included Ulrich Leyendecker and Sidney Corbett.
- Additionally, he spent one year studying traditional Korean music at Seoul National University.
- In 2007, he was a visiting composer at Wesleyan University.
- From 2008, Kern studied in New York with Matthias Pintscher and Louis Karchin. He received a MacCracken Research Fellowship and now teaches at New York University.
- Over the past 20 years, Kern has composed and produced hundreds of new compositions and dozens of new works.
- He has made lauded appearances as performer and composer in the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Asia.
- In addition to his work with electronic instruments and media, Kern has composed works for acoustic instrumentations, ranging from soloist to full orchestra.
- Friedrich Heinrich Kern published his dissertation, entitled An Exploration of Compositional Technique in the Operas of Kaaija Saariaho and Christian Jost, in 2016.
- He teaches a composition class at New York University, where he earned a PhD, and is based in New York City.
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