Speaker

Benjamin Scheuer

Benjamin Scheuer is a freelance composer and researcher. He studied composition in Hamburg (diploma 2011) and Karlsruhe (soloist exam 2014) with Dieter Mack, Fredrik Schwenk and Wolfgang Rihm. In 2023, he completed his doctorate at the Freiburg University of Music under Janina Klassen with a thesis on music theatricality in the work of Georges Aperghis. His compositions are performed every year in various countries and by renowned ensembles. He has been awarded the Hindemith Prize (SHMF), the Busoni Prize of the Akademie der Künste Berlin and the Schneider-Schott Music Prize. He won the Basel Composition Competition 2019 with his orchestral piece “versungen” and the Composition Prize of the City of Stuttgart 2021 with “Acht Arten zu Atmen” for accordion and clarinet. As a founding member of Musiker ohne Grenzen e.V., he regularly traveled to Ecuador, where he gave music lessons to disadvantaged young people. He currently teaches composition and music theory in Mainz and Trossingen.

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