Prof. Jörg Mainka

Prof. Jörg Mainka, born 1962 in Salzgitter-Bad, studied from 1982-1989 at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe (organ with Prof. Hans-Joachim Haarbeck, music theory and composition with Prof. Eugen-Werner Velte). He began lessons in piano, organ and cello at a very young age. At 14 he had his first composition lessons. After aand from 1984-89 with Prof. Mathias Spahlinger. Between 1990 and 1996 he created numerous multimedia and live electronic works in close cooperation with the computer studio at the Karslruhe Music Academy and the Karlsruhe Centre for Art and Media Technology. In 1990 Jörg Mainka was one of the founders of the Society of New Composers in Karlsruhe. He composed chamber music, works for ensemble, for orchestra, stage music e.g. for the Stuttgart Opera in 1996 and 2004 and for the Donaueschingen Musiktage in 2000. In July 2004 his full-length music theatre work "Voyeur" was premiered in the "Forum Neues Musiktheater" at the Stuttgart Opera. A portrait CD of the composer was issued in 2003 in the contemporary music edition of the German Music Council. For his composition work he received a prize in the WDR international composers' competition, 'Forum junger Komponisten', in Cologne in 1988. In 1995/96 he was granted a scholarship by the Akademie Schloß Solitude, Stuttgart. In 2004 he received the sponsorship award in the category Music of the Berlin Art Award. Jörg Mainka has been teaching since 1988. Besides a tutorship in music theory at the Institute of Musicology at Karlsruhe University, from 1989 he was first a tutor at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe and later, from 1994-99, lecturer. In the winter semester 1999/2000, Jörg Mainka was appointed Professor of Music Theory at the Academy of Music Hanns Eisler Berlin and was Vice Director of the Academy from april 2008 to september 2011.