Martin Herchenröder has been professor of composition, music theory, and organ at the University of Siegen in Germany since 1994. In 1998, he was a guest artist at the University of British Columbia. Since 2008, he has regularly visited the Eastman School of Music in New York as a guest professor in organ and composition. He has given classes and lectures at schools and universities worldwide, including the Musikhochschule Köln, the Musikhochschule Bremen, the University of Chicago, McGill University in Montreal, and the Juilliard School of Music in New York.
At the Musikhochschule Köln, Martin Herchenröder studied organ with Ludger Lohmann and Wolfgang Stockmeier and music theory and composition with Jürg Baur and Hans Werner Henze, as well as music education and church music. He has also studied musicology and German at the Universität zu Köln.
His compositions have been presented internationally by performers such as Markus Stockhausen (trumpet), Alban Gerhardt and Michael Sanderling (cello), Hans Davidsson and Werner Jacob (organ), and the Arditti Quartet, and he has received commissions from various German cities and orchestras and from the Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR). He has also received awards from organizations such as the Deutscher Musikrat, the DAAD, and the Fulbright Program, as well as the Märkisches Stipendium für Bildende Kunst. His compositions have been published by Bärenreiter and others.
His repertoire as an organist spans the Renaissance to the present, with focus on the works of J.S. Bach and the music of the 20th century; he has premiered many pieces. He has recorded for the WDR and for labels such as Koch Schwann and FFFZ.
As a musicologist, he has published mainly on music theory and contemporary music, including organ music. Among his publications are a book on the organ works of György Ligeti and an edition of the late works by Bengt Hambraeus.
Web: http://www.organacademy.se/faculty/martin-herchenroder/ (2015)