Paul Leonard Schäffer


Paul Leonard Schäffer is a German composer, conductor and pianist.

Life

Born in Hannover, Schäffer received his first piano lessons at the age of five and a short time later became a member of the Knabenchor Hannover. At the age of 16 he received his first organ lessons from Torsten Meyer. He studied music composition at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main with Gerhard Müller-Hornbach, church music with Martin Lücker as well as conducting with Wojciech Rajski at the same university. Further studies with Beat Furrer, Mark Andre, as well as song accompaniment and accompaniment lessons with Eugen Wangler and Helmut Deutsch complemented his musical education.
He is a scholarship holder of the Aribert-Reimann-Stiftung, the "Paul-Hindemith und Heinrich-Mann-Stipendiums" of the and since 2010 he has been supported and sponsored by Frankfurt am Main.
In the year 2014 he was finalist of the orchestra composition competition of the.
His works have been performed by the Internationale Ensemble Modern Akademie, of the Jenaer Philharmonie, as well as by the ensemble "l'Autre mOnde". Performances took place at the Staatstheater Wiesbaden, the Alte Oper Frankfurt and in the context of the Rheingau Musik Festival, of the, der Kasseler Musiktage und der Handel-Festspiele Karlsruhe statt.
In February 2012 he made his debut as musical director of The Threepenny Opera with the Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz at Theater im Pfalzbau Ludwigshafen. The production was awarded with the golden bird at the 3rd Papageno-Award. In January 2016. he took over the musical direction of the Figuralchor Frankfurt.

Awards and scholarships

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