Making Music with the Means of Stage: On Polyphonic Structures in Music Theatre.
German composer and director Heiner Goebbels is at the forefront of innovation in contemporary music and theatre. Winner of the prestigious international Ibsen Award, Goebbels is acclaimed as a “true innovator” and “one of the great creative personalities of today”. His extraordinary body of work ranges from large scale opera, orchestral and concert works to intimate installations and radioworks. His ground-breaking orchestral song cycle Surrogate Cities is one of the world's most performed contemporary music theatre works with performances in 5 countries this coming season. Goebbels holds the Georg Büchner Chair at the interdisciplinary research centre ZMI, Centre for Media and Interactivity, at Justus Liebig University Gießen.
