Markus Zahnhausen (1965-)

Overview

Acoording to Internet source given below, Markus Zahnhausen (born in Saarbrücken, Germany) is one of Europe's best-known performers of and composers for the recorder. He studied music at the Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich and additionally studied musicology and Slavic languages and literature at the universities in Trier and Munich. He has taught recorder and chamber music at the Munich Volkshochschule sinc 1988. In 1994/5 he was a visiting lecturer at the Carl Nielsen Academy of Music in Odense, Denmark, and at the Royal Academy of Music in Copenhagen. As a music journalist he has worked for the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts and regularly writes for the Bavarian Broadcasting System and trade journals in Germany and abroad. His works include orchestral works, choral pieces, chamber music, and above all pieces with a special emphasis on the recorder. Zahnhausen is chief editor of the Modern Recorder Library Series by Möseler in Wolfenbüttel and has inspired many new works for the recorder from composers such as of Rodion Shchedrin, Harald Genzmer, Günter Kochan, Hans Stadlmair, Walter Mays, Boris Tishchenko and Ruth Zechlin.

Websites:
	Markus Zahnhausen	Biography by de.wikipedia.

CDs

	Performer	CD Title	Supplier


Recorder Music CDs:
Markus Zahnhausen	Klangreden: Neue Musik für Blockflöte Vol. 4
Susanna Laurin	Zahnhausen: Lyrische Szenen
Sirena Recorder Quartet	Baroque
Tamara Gries	Woodworks	CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)