Johannes Schöllhorn

Johannes Schöllhorn is a German composer and conductor, born in Murnau in 1962. He studied composition in Freiburg with Klaus Huber, Emmanuel Nunes and Mathias Spahlinger, music theory with Peter Förtig, and conducting with Peter Eötvös. He directed Freiburg’s Ensemble für Neue Musik until 2004. His collaborators have included Ensemble Modern, Ensemble intercontemporain, Ensemble Musikfabrik and ensemble recherche, as well as major radio orchestras. He has taught composition in Zürich-Winterthur, Hannover, Cologne and Freiburg. On Finis Terrae, he conducts Ensemble Musikfabrik in five works by Chilean composers.