Daniel Hensel

His maternal family lives in the city of Buedingen since 1594.

Daniel Hensel (born 17 April 1978 in Büdingen) is a German composer, VJ, musicologist and music theorist.

He is known as a composer of expressive works of all musical genres whose works can be dedicated to "a thread of a tradition leading from Schubert via Mahler to Hensel's teacher Schedl in presence.[...]" His style contains all kinds of material, such as traditional tonal or harmonic as well as noise and electronic material.

His works are published by Musikverlag Doblinger in Vienna.

Hensel is a descendant of a family of musicians of light and rock music.

Hensel began his studies of composition in 1995 as a student of the Austrian composer Gerhard Schedl at Dr. Hoch's Konservatorium.

From 1999 on he studied composition with Heinz Winbeck in Würzburg, and later with Manfred Trojahn in Düsseldorf where he graduated with distinction.

Postgraduate studies with Michael Obst followed at the Hochschule für Musik "Franz Liszt", Weimar.

He concluded his studies in musical composition in Winbeck's masterclass.

Op.19 "The Young Maidservant" after poems by Georg Trakl, for Flute, Clarinet and String quartet WP.:02.07.10 Francfort and 02.09.10 Darmstadt, Germany, by ensemble Darmstadt, Marko Zdralek

Hensel and the Polish sociologist Dorota Ewa Hensel have been married since 2005 and have five children.

He and his wife have been spending every summer in Radzyń Podlaski, Poland, for 18 years.

Op.16 Reflexions for orchestra composed for the Festival:

Europe, the blue star.

2222\433\Timp\Hrp\ Strings 10\8\6\4\2

Junges Klangforum Mitte Europa, Sebastian Weigle

Op.17 Concerto for piano and orchestra 2222\2\2\2\1\Timp\2Perc.\Hf\Cel\ Strings 10\8\6\4\2 WP.:06.10.08 8:00 p.m., Hochschule fuer Musik Wuerzburg

In 2007, his piece "Refexions for Orchestra" was the official German musical contribution for the handover of the EU-council presidency from Germany to Portugal.

The piece was played by the young sound forum of central Europe and was conducted by Sebastian Weigle.

In 2008 Manfred Honeck conducted Hensel's "Chant of consecrated life" op. 18 as an "Ouverture" to the 2.

Symphony of Gustav Mahler.

In 2009 Hensel began to study musicology with Peter Ackermann and wrote a dissertation on the music of Gerhard Schedl.

In 2009 Hensel's arrangements of the 45th Symphony by Joseph Haydn and the 8th Symphony by Ludwig van Beethoven were played by the Young Euro Classic-China-Festivalorchestra and conducted by Muhai Tang in various Chinese cities like Shanghai and Tianjin.< His string sextet "Klaerchen´s Song" op.20 had its W.P. by the Ensemble Modern under Jonathan Stockhammer and was played again by the Austrian ensemble lux in the Arnold Schönberg Center Vienna in December 2010.

Hensel obtained his doctorate with "magna cum laude" on 13 July 2011.

Hensel's music was played by artists such as Carin Levine and Markus Bellheim, the Ensemble Modern, the Staatsorchester Stuttgart, and conductors such as Manfred Honeck.

Several pieces were composed on behalf of festivals such as the A•DEvantgarde-Festival, young-euro.classic or Kasseler Musiktage, or institutions such as the Carl Orff Center Munich or Staatstheater Stuttgart and broadcast by several German radio stations.

In 2011 he started to work with the German author and filmmaker Edgar Reitz and one year later he started to compose electro-acoustic music besides his acoustic works.

Op.20 Stringsextet "Klärchen´s Song", dedicated to Dieter Rexroth, W.P. 11.07.09, Alte Brüderkirche Kassel, by Ensemble Modern and Jonathan Stockhammer

In the same year, his dissertation concerning the music of Gerhard Schedl was published and in 2012 he edited Emanuel Aloys Förster´s basso continuo school including Karl Weigl´s biography on Förster.

Hensel is a member of the German composers association and the GEMA.

Op.18 "Chant of consecrated life", for big orchestra, on behalf of the state opera Stuttgart, dedicated to Prof. Heinz Winbeck, WP.: 12.07.08, Stuttgart,

Liederhalle, state orchestra of Stuttgart, Manfred Honeck, Conductor

Since 2013 Hensel is also performing visual arts combined with his electronic pieces.

In 2016 he obtained his post-doctoral lecturer's qualification in systematical musicology and has become a member of the philosophical faculty of Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg.

The title of the habilitation treatise is: "Modus, Klang- und Zeitgestaltung in Motetten Orlando di Lassos und Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrinas".

(Mode, time-management, and sound design in motets by Orlando di Lasso and Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina) for which the software-developer Ingo Jache and Hensel developed the music analyzing Software PALESTRiNIZER.

The treatise was published under the title "Beiträge zur Musikinformatik".

2017 Hensel also composed music for children after poems by James Krüss.

For the last years, Hensel composed electro-acoustic works on behalf of hr2-kultur.

His electro-acoustic works have received several grants and have been broadcast on BR-Klassik, among others.