Heiner Goebbels

Heiner Goebbels is represented in North America by Boosey & Hawkes, New York. His primary publisher is Ricordi Berlin, part of Universal Music Publishing Group. For more information, please contact:

G. Ricordi & Co. Bühnen- und Musikverlag GmbH
part of Universal Music Publishing Classical
Stralauer Allee 1
D-10245 Berlin
Germany
Tel. +49 (0) 30 52007-1323
[email protected]

Heiner Goebbels was born on 17th August 1952 in Neustadt. In the 1990s Heiner Goebbels began to focus on composing music theatre works that have meanwhile been played and staged worldwide. His first stage work "Surrogate Cities" ranks among the most performed contemporary music theatre works. Goebbels has collaborated with ensembles and orchestras such as Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Berlin Philharmonic and Brooklyn Philharmonic and has worked with conductors like Sir Simon Rattle, Peter Eötvös, Steven Sloane and many others. Since 2006 he has been president of the Theater Academy Hessen. From 2012-2014 he was artistic director of the Ruhrtriennale.

Works by Heiner Goebbels include:
Surrogate Cities (1993/94) for mezzo, speaker, sampler and large orchestra
Black on White (1995-96) music theater for 18 musicians
Songs of Wars I Have Seen (2007) for one or two chamber orchestra