Andreas Pieper was born in 1958 in Essen, Germany. He studied church music in Westphalia and was cantor from 1983 to 1993 in Bochum. He completed his composition studies with Roland Ploeger in Lübeck in 1993. Since 1993 he has been a church musician in Duisburg. His religous and secular music has been performed since 1979. His Symphony "Ins Helle geht der Drang von dunklen Dingen" was commissioned by the Rhein-Ruhr-Philharmonie, and his piano music was broadcast by the Westdeutscher Rundfunk (West German Radio). He won a prize in the composition competition "Windrose" as part of the Ruhrfestspiele in 2002 with his violin sonata op. 40. All of his compositions may be found in the city libraries in Essen and Lübeck.
As composer he has been active in every form of musical expression offered by contemporary composition. His oeuvre comprises about 60 works for various instruments, string quartet, piano trio, large orchestra, organ, choir, solo voice, piano, string and wind instruments and numerous other instrumentations. After 20 years of composition in every style he has dedicated himself again to free major-minor tonality and met with great acceptance. Lyric, expressive, playable, beautful sounding musical language is important to him. Music, which one ideally would like to hear again and again, but which has its own individuality.
He would be happy to hear from you and introduce his works to you.
