Helmut Oehring is a German composer. He studied with Friedrich Goldmann

Friedrich Goldmann

Friedrich Goldmann was a German composer and conductor.-Life:Born on 27 April 1941, in Siegmar-Schönau, Chemnitz, Goldmann’s music education began in 1951 when he joined the Dresdner Kreuzchor...

 and Georg Katzer

Georg Katzer

Georg Katzer is a German composer. He was one of the pioneers of electronic new music in the German Democratic Republic .-Biography:...

 at the Akademie der Künste

Akademie der Künste

The Akademie der Künste, Berlin is an arts institution in Berlin, Germany. It was founded in 1696 by Elector Frederick III of Brandenburg as the Prussian Academy of Arts, an academic institution where members could meet and discuss and share ideas...

. He was guest of the Villa Massimo

Villa Massimo

Villa Massimo, short for Deutsche Akademie Rom Villa Massimo , is a German art institute in Rome, established in 1910 and located in the Villa Massimo....

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Oehring has also worked with different artists from all areas such as Ruth Berghaus

Ruth Berghaus

Ruth Berghaus was a German choreographer and opera and theatre director.Berghaus was born in Dresden and studied Expressionist dance and Dance direction with Gret Palucca there and was an advanced student at the German Academy of Arts in Berlin, at least part of the time under Walter Felsenstein -...

, Ulrike Ottinger

Ulrike Ottinger

Ulrike Ottinger is a German filmmaker, documentarian photographer and professor at European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland.-Biography:From 1959 she was a visiting student at the Academy of Arts in Munich and worked as a painter...

, Till Nikolaus von Heiseler, Daniele Abbado, Claus Guth and Maxim Dessau, the choreographer Joachim Schlömer as well as the conductors Ingo Metzmacher

Ingo Metzmacher

Ingo Metzmacher is a German conductor. He is the son of the cellist Rudolf Metzmacher. His musical education in piano, music theory and conducting was in Hanover, Salzburg and Cologne...

, Lothar Zagrosek

Lothar Zagrosek

Lothar Zagrosek is a German conductor. As a youth, he sang in the Regensburg Cathedral choir, including performances as the First Boy in The Magic Flute at the 1954 Salzburg Festival...

, Martyn Brabbins

Martyn Brabbins

Martyn Brabbins is a British conductor. He studied at Goldsmiths College, London University, and later was a conducting student of Ilya Musin at the Leningrad Conservatory....

 and Roland Kluttig

Roland Kluttig

Roland Kluttig is a German conductor.From 1986 to 1991 he studied conducting at the Hochschule für Musik "Carl Maria von Weber" in Dresden. He attended master classes with Sylvain Cambreling, Peter Eötvös and John Eliot Gardiner. From 1992 to 1999 he was conductor of the Kammerensemble Neue Musik...

. He also worked with the Ensemble Sortisatio

Ensemble Sortisatio

Ensemble Sortisatio is a quartet founded by violist Matthias Sannemüller in 1992 in Leipzig, Germany. Its members are mostly soloists at the MDR Symphony Orchestra. They have specialized in contemporary classical music.- Formation :The Ensemble Sortisatio was founded in 1992 by Matthias...

  of Leipzig

Leipzig

Leipzig Leipzig has always been a trade city, situated during the time of the Holy Roman Empire at the intersection of the Via Regia and Via Imperii, two important trade routes. At one time, Leipzig was one of the major European centres of learning and culture in fields such as music and publishing...

 on a project specially created for the Festival Hallische Musiktage.

Awards

• Hanns Eisler Prize (1990)
• Prize at the Young Composers Forum, WDR
  Westdeutscher Rundfunk
  Westdeutscher Rundfunk is a German public-broadcasting institution based in the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia with its main office in Cologne. WDR is a constituent member of the consortium of German public-broadcasting institutions, ARD...
  
   (1992)
• Scholarship of Lower Saxony
  Lower Saxony
  Lower Saxony is a German state situated in north-western Germany and is second in area and fourth in population among the sixteen states of Germany...
  
   (1993/94)
• Scholarship of the Villa Massimo
  Villa Massimo
  Villa Massimo, short for Deutsche Akademie Rom Villa Massimo , is a German art institute in Rome, established in 1910 and located in the Villa Massimo....
  
   (1994/95)
• Scholarship from the Cité des Arts (1994)
• Orpheus Prize (1996)
• Paul Hindemith Prize of the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival
  Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival
  The Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival is a classical music festival held every year in summer time all over the state of Schleswig-Holstein in Northern Germany....
  
   (1997)
• Schneider-Schott Music Prize (1998)
• Arnold Schönberg Prize
  Arnold Schönberg Prize
  The International Arnold-Schönberg-Prize was established in 2001, and named after the Austrian composer Arnold Schönberg, thanks to the initiative of Kent Nagano, the former principal conductor and musical director of the Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester in Berlin, together with Deutschlandradio...
  
   (2008)
• Composer in residence at the State Orchestra of Brandenburg (2009/10)
• Artist in residence
  Artist in residence
  Artist-in-residence programs and other residency opportunities allow visiting artists to stay and work so that they may apply singular focus to their art practice....
  
   at the Kurt Weill Festival (2010)

External links

• http://www.boosey.com/pages/cr/composer/composer_main.asp?composerid=17585&ttype=BIOGRAPHY&ttitle=Biography
• http://www.helmutoehring.de/oehring/biography/index.html
• http://www.jstor.org/pss/946539
• http://www.kurt-weill-fest.de/pages_en/kwf_2_2_0_8.html