Henning Lohner

Henning Lohner was raised in California by German emigrant parents. He returned to Germany to complete studies in musicology, art history and romantic languages at Frankfurt University, from which he graduated as MA Now working steadily in the field of new music, theater and film, he has participated on projects such as Steve Reich’s The Cave and Different Trains, and Giorgio Strehler’s theater spectacle of Goethe’s Faust I & II.. Collaborations with Frank Zappa on Peefeeyatko (1991) and The Yellow Shark (1992), with John Cage on one11 and 103 (1992), led to the music films The Revenge of the Dead Indians (1993), and In a Metal Mood (1996, starring Pat Boone). Henning Lohner’s audio-visual installation raw material, vol. 1-11 (1995) has toured prominent venues in continental Europe, including the Gemeente Museum, The Hague, the Sonic Art Festival in Rome and the Video Art Festival of Berlin. This work, as well as the compositional method that he employs in his music, was largely inspired by the friendship and style of painter Gerhard Richter. Since 1996, Henning Lohner has been living in Los Angeles and working as a composer at the “Media Ventures” film music studios founded by composer Hans Zimmer. Lohner’s has scored Love Comes Lately which will be at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.