Jörn Peter Hiekel


Jörn Peter Hiekel is a German musicologist.

Life

Born in Göttingen, Hiekel first studied musicology, art history and history at the universities of Cologne and Bonn before he completed his double bass studies at the Musikhochschule Köln. Afterwards he received his doctorate at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn.
He worked for many years as editor and publisher at the Breitkopf & Härtel music publishing house and as author for various ARD institutions and newspapers/magazines.
Since 1992 a member of various early music ensembles, in 2002 he became a lecturer at the International Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music and directed the composer seminars.
From 2003 he was assistant professor for 20th century music at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden. In 2005 he took over the direction of the Institute for New Music at the Technische Universität Dresden and in 2008 he habilitated in historical musicology at the Technische Universität Dresden and took over a professorship for musicology/new music at the HfM Dresden. Since 2008 he is lecturer for music aesthetics and musicology at the Zurich University of the Arts.
Hiekel is a member of the Sächsische Akademie der Künste, in 2008-2014 secretary and since June 2015 deputy secretary of the Academy's music class. Since 2008 he is head of the mediation project, since 2012 board member of KlangNetz Dresden e. V. 2004-2019 he was board member of the Darmstadt Institute for New Music and Music Education, which he took over in 2013.
In 2014 he was awarded the Saxon Teaching Prize, which was presented for the first time. In 2019 he received the 10,000 EUR prize at the Bavarian Academy of Arts. "Happy New Ears"-Preis für Publizistik.

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