Manfred Trojahn

Manfred Trojahn
Born	(1949-10-22)22 October 1949 Cremlingen, Lower Saxony, Germany
Education	Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg
Occupations	Composer Academic teacher
Organizations	Robert Schumann Hochschule Deutscher Komponistenverband Academy of Arts, Berlin

Manfred Trojahn (born 22 October 1949) is a German composer, flutist, conductor, writer and academic teacher.

Career

Trojahn was born Cremlingen in Lower Saxony and began his musical studies in 1966 in orchestra music at the music school of Braunschweig. After graduating in 1970 he concluded his studies as a flutist at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg with Karlheinz Zöller. From 1971 he studied composition with Diether de la Motte. He also studied with György Ligeti, conducting with Albert Bittner. Since 1991 he is professor for musical composition at the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf. From 2004 until 2006 he was President of the Deutscher Komponistenverband; from 2008 to 2012 he was vice-director of the music section of the Academy of Arts, Berlin.

Works

His works have been published by Bärenreiter and Sikorski.

Publications

• Trojahn, Manfred (2006). Wagner, Hans-Joachim (ed.). Schriften zur Musik (in German). Frankfurt und Basel: Stroemfeld Verlag. ISBN 3-87877-945-3.

Students

Among Trojahn's students in composition are Oscar van Dillen, Matthias Pintscher and Daniel Hensel.

External links

• "Bärenreiter Verlag – Kurzbiographie". Bärenreiter Verlag (in German). Retrieved 18 November 2022.
• "Trojahn, Manfred". Sikorski Music Publishers. 23 July 2020. Retrieved 18 November 2022.
• "Manfred Trojahn". Boosey & Hawkes. Retrieved 18 November 2022.