Draft:Ludger Hofmann-Engl

Ludger Hofmann-Engl' (* 1964 in Bamberg) is a German pianist and composer as well as a scientist and social worker.

Education and work
Hofmann-Engl attended the Gymnasium Fridericianum Erlangen. He studied composition at the Meistersinger Conservatory in Nuremberg, piano at the Institute for Sacred Music in Erlangen, and later musicology, philosophy and theoretical physics at the TU Berlin. In 2003 he received his doctorate in psychology from Keele University. Hofmann-Engl lived from 1992 to 2015 in London where he worked as a pianist, composer, scientist and social worker.

From 1995 to 2000 he was chairman of the Chameleon Group of Composers, which was organized as an association. The main interest of this self-help group of composers living in Croydon (South London) was to circumvent or undermine the traditional structures of the music business - music publishers and music industry - in order to be able to work independently and build new structures. The group organized numerous festivals and concerts with contemporary music. The word Chameleon was chosen as the name of the group to express the diversity of compositional styles among the members.

Since 1999, Ludger Hofmann-Engl has been running a website as an online platform for music, music theory and music psychology. In addition to Ludger Hofmann-Engl, the core of the group at that time consisted of the co-founder and Henri Pousseur student Peter Anthony Monk, the composers Giles Easterbrook and Christopher Wood. During the group's active period between its founding in 1995 and 2000, there were 30 premieres and collaborations with groups in the USA.

From 1997 to 2000, the members participated in music education projects that were funded by the British government in connection with school or educational programs.

The claim (Hofmann-Engl vs UK) that the United Kingdom had violated European human rights was rejected by Judge Hirvelä. This prompted Hofmann-Engl to move to Krakow (Poland), where he has been living and working since 2015.

His work has been particularly recognized in the field of music psychology.

Publications (selection)

 * Second Symphonic Work, Vienna Modern Masters 1991 (VMM 3003), performed by the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Szymon Kawalla
 * Two pieces (No. 1. and No. 2.) on Music from 6 Continents (1991 Series), Vienna Modern Masters 1991 (today Naxos digital)

Weblinks

 * Ludger Hofmann-Engl at Researchgate
 * Chameleon Group
 * Ludger Hofmann-Engl at Researchgate
 * Chameleon Group