Stefan Hakenberg has served as the director of the Public Music School Division of the Darmstadt Academy for Musical Arts. He is also a founder of the Alaskan contemporary music organization "CrossSound," which won a 2002 ASCAP-Chamber Music America Award for Adventurous Programming of Contemporary Music, and in 2005 received an NEA Creativity Grant. He attended the conservatories of Düsseldorf and Cologne where he studied composition with Hans Werner Henze. He received a Ph.D. from Harvard University where he studied with Bernard Rands and Mario Davidovsky. Other grants and fellowships brought him to the summer festivals in Tanglewood (where he studied with Oliver Knussen on a Leonard Bernstein Fellowship), Aspen (where he studied with John Harbison), and Fontainebleau (where he studied with Betsy Jolas). MeetTheComposer, the Alaska State Council on the Arts, various Alaskan arts and humanities councils, the State Music Council of North-Rhine Westphalia, and the Endowments for the Arts in
Stefan Hakenberg
Studios
New Jersey
Stefan Hakenberg worked in the New Jersey studio.
The yellow clapboard New Jersey Studio, located on a grassy, sloping site, was funded by the New Jersey Federation of Women’s Clubs and built as an exact replica of Monday Music Studio (1913). The studio’s porch rests on fieldstone piers that increase in height as the ground slopes to the west. Like Monday Music Studio, New Jersey…