Robin Hoffmann

Robin Hoffmann (*1970 in Bielefeld) composes for solo instruments, chamber music, ensemble, orchestra and vocal instrumentation, and also works in the fields of electroacoustic composition and experimental improvisation. In numerous collaborations, transmedial hybrid forms with neighboring disciplines such as dance, theater, film, and visual arts emerge beyond music-immanent projects.

In addition to his freelance work as a composer, he has also been a lecturer for composition/music theory at the Musikhochschule in Frankfurt Main since 2005, at the musicological institute of the Philipps-Universität Marburg from 2013–2020, and at the Institute of Music at the Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences since 2020. In the summer semester of 2022, he will replace Martin Schüttler in the composition class at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart.

Robin Hoffmann’s artistic work is equally characterized by continuity and non-linearity. Breaking styles is a matter of honor! The personal signature proves itself in the insistence on a subjectively felt necessity. The more diverse this is, the better.

Robin Hoffmann has received several awards for his compositions, including a 1st prize at the German Study Prize of the Körber Foundation in 2002, the Stuttgart Composition Prize in 2005, the Kranichstein Composition Prize in 2006 and the Hans Werner Henze Prize (formerly the Westphalian Music Prize) of the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe in 2019.