Walter Hekster

Walter Hekster

Infobox Musical artist

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Born = March 29, 1937
Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Genre = Contemporary classical music
Occupation = Composer, Clarinetist, conductor
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Walter Hekster (born March 29, 1937 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch composer, clarinetist and conductor of classical music, specializing in contemporary classical music.

Studying composition with Ton de Leeuw and clarinet with Bram de Wilde, he graduated from the Amsterdam Academy of Music in 1961. Upon his graduation he studied clarinet with Keith Wilson and composition with Mel Powell at Yale University, where he received a Master of Music in 1963. In 1966 he studied with Roger Sessions in Tanglewood.

In the meantime he performed as a clarinetist in the Netherlands Wind Ensemble and the Connecticut Symphony Orchestra.

In 1965 he accepted an appointment for professor of clarinet and composition at Brandon University in Manitoba, which he held until 1971. There he started conducting the Brandon Chamber Orchestra.

In 1971 he studied sonology at the University of Utrecht. He then taught at the music conservatories of Enschede, Arnhem, and Groningen until 1990. With the Rosetti Woodwind Quintet, Quartetto di Fiati, Ensemble '80, and the Circle Ensemble, he performed throughout Europe and the United States.

Walter Hekster is an extremely productive composer, creating music for a wide range of orchestra and chamber music settings. The Dutch not-for-profit publishing house Donemus published 134 of his works.

Hekster has been married since 1962 to the US-born and Yale-educated bassoon player Alice Hekster-van Leuvan. The couple has two children, Ben Hekster and Suzy van der Meer.

elected works

* "The Fog", chamber opera in one act (1987; libretto by Lewis Turco).
* "Derivations" for piano (1972)
* "Diverties" for flute, clarinet, horn, bassoon and piano (1970)
* "Pentagram for Woodwind Quintet" (1971)
* "Piano Sonata" (1966)
* "Studies in Spatial Notation" (1972)
* "Windows" for double-bass solo (1971)

Discography

Works by Hekster
* "Summer's End" (Emergo)Hekster and other composers
* "Eclipse" on "Ereprijs Ensemble" (Klimop)
* "Harmonologue" on "Dirk Luijmes" (BV Haast)
* "Songs of the Japanese" on "Conservatory of Twente"
* "Piano Sonata" on "Bart Berman, piano" (Golf, 1978)

External links

* [http://www.walterhekster.com Official website]


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