In a number of works for musical theatre - 'The Rat-catcher' (The Pied Piper) based on a libretto by Michael Ende, the opera 'Eduard auf dem Seil' (Edward on the Tightrope) on a story by Mörike and 'D...
Diese abwechslungsreich komponierten, humorvollen wie poetischen Satiren entstanden als Auftragswerk für den renommierten Mädchenchor Hannover. Sie sind als Zyklus oder auch einzeln aufführbar.
In 1999 a Bronze Age metal disc was found near the city of Nebra (Saxony-Anhalt/Germany), showing astronomical symbols and phenomena. Dated c. 1600 years BC, the so-called Nebra sky disk is regarded a...
In a film portrait of dancer, painter and sculptor Antje Tesche-Mentzen, I learned that in former times she was a proficient pianist. When she told me that she intended to begin playing again, I promi...
Wilfried Hiller arranged three dances from Carl Orff's Carmina Burana for the famous klezmer clarinettist Giora Feidman. The version for clarinet and four violoncellos was first performed by him toget...
This rewarding trio composition traces the ancient Greek myth of Niobe, goddess of fertility, who was turned to stone. The Aria 'Io son di morte' from the Baroque opera of the same name by Agostino St...
This piece was originally intended as part of a larger cycle based on a series of paintings by Marc Chagall. The fiddle of the title is the main protagonist in this little movement for string trio, th...