Helmut Oehring was born in 1961 in East Berlin. He is a self-taught musician and composer and did not write his first music until the age of 25. When he was 29, he became master student at the Academy of Arts in Berlin, which he was chosen to be a member of in 2005. In 1994/95 he was a scholar at the Villa Massimo in Rome and since then received numerous awards and honours, for instance the Hanns Eisler Prize of the Deutschlandsender Kultur, the Orpheus Chamber Opera Award Italy, the Schneider-Schott-Prize, the Hindemith Prize as well as the Arnold Schönberg Prize. He composes both chamber and opera music, film scores and solo music. His work counts up to over 200 compositions by now. The composer is married and has two children. He lives with his family in Waldsieversdorf in the Märkische Schweiz.
Mit anderen Augen: Vom Kind gehörloser Eltern zum Komponisten
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ET: 12. September 2011