Title: Harmoniemusik 1
Commission: 2017
Completed: 2019
Instrumentation: amplified ensemble
Premiere Location: April 20, 2019 at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music, New York
Premiere Ensemble: Talea Ensemble
Notes:

Hans Thomalla is Associate Professor of Composition at Northwestern University, where he also founded and currently directs the Institute for New Music. He taught masterclasses and seminars at different courses such as Matrix Freiburg and at the Darmstadt Summer Courses, where he was on the composition faculty for several years, and were he directed the first Darmstadt Opera Workshop for composers and singers in 2014. 

Hans Thomalla studied at the Frankfurt Musikhochschule and received his doctoral degree in composition at Stanford University. From 1999–2002 he was an Assistant Dramaturge and later Dramaturge and Musical Advisor of the Dramaturgie at the Stuttgart Opera. He has been awarded numerous awards and fellowships, among others the Composer Prize of the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung, the Kranichsteiner Musikpreis, and the Christoph-Delz-Prize. During the academic year 2014–15 he was a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.