Robin Hoffmann
Lecturer
Born in 1970. Robin Hoffmann composes for solo instruments, chamber music, ensemble, orchestra and vocal ensembles; also electro-acoustic compositions and experimental improvisation/performance; numerous cooperative projects, music within and beyond to trans-medial mixed forms with neighboring disciplines such as dance, theater, film and visual arts.
He has taught composition/music theory for many years at the music academies in Frankfurt am Main and Stuttgart, at the Institute of Musicology at the Philipps University in Marburg and at the Institute of Music at the Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences.
Hoffmann was co-founder and from 2003–11 first chairman of the Frankfurt Society for New Music. Since 2022, he has been chairman of the Institute for New Music and Music Education, organizing the traditional Darmstadt Spring Conference of the INMM together with the board. He is also co-editor of the conference proceedings at Schott Music.
Robin Hoffmann has received several awards for his compositions, including first prize at the Körber Foundation’s German Study Prize in 2002, the Stuttgart Composition Prize in 2005, the Kranichstein Composition Prize in 2006 and most recently the Hans Werner Henze Prize (formerly the Westphalian Music Prize) from the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe in 2019.