Faculty

Prof. HORST-HANS BÄCKER

Professor

Department: Conservatory of Music, Theater and Dance

  • 1981 Studied Composition with Professor Ludwig Werner Weiand at the Conservatory in Wuppertal 
  • 1983 - 1985 Studied Composition with Professor Gyla Horvath, Ensemble Conducting with Professor Kurt Prestel and Performance Practice of  Early Music with Professor Nikolaus Harnoncourt at the Moyarteum in Salzburg 
  • 1986 - 1989 Completed his studies in Composition  under Professor Jürg Baur at the Conservatory Köln 
  • 1993 to present Guest Conductor of various symphony orchestras in Europe and Brazil 
  • 1998 to present Principal Conductor of the symphony orchestra INTERNATIONALE PHILHARMONIE 
  • 1999 - 2006 Conducted orchestras in the recordings of the CDs:

SPANISH NIGHT including Joaquin Rodrigo’s Concertos for 1, 2 and 4 Guitars and Orchestra with the guitarist Dale Kavanagh, Amadeus Guitar Duo and Eden-Ste--Duo and the INTERNATIONALE PHILHARMONIE

SPANISH NIGHT II with the guitarist Dale Kavanagh, Amadeus Guitar Duo, panpipes player Gheorghe Zamfir and the State Philharmonic Arad; including an orchestral work by Bäcker “Rapsodia Mallorquina”

Berühmte Opernarien – Panflöte und Orchester with soloist Gheorghe Zamfir and State Philharmonic Arad

ZauberPANflöte with panpipes player Matthias Schlubeck and the State Philharmonic Transylvania 

  • 2003 to present Permanent Guest Conductor  of  Arad State Philharmonic Orchestra and the State Philharmonic Orchestra “Oltenia” in Craiova 
  • 2006 to present Permanent Guest Conductor of the State Philharmonic Orchestra “Banatul” in Timisoara 
  • 2006 - 2008 completed his formation as a conductor in Master Classes with Jorma Panula 
  • 2006 to present Conducted concerts with his arrangements for symphony orchestra and some for choir and orchestra of works by the Bands such as Beatles, Queen, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones, Supertramp and others. Each time these concerts are sold out and Highlights were some Open-Air Concerts with each about 25,000 enthusiastic spectators. Another positive effect of this kind of concerts is to bring young people closer to Symphony Orchestras and Choirs. 
  • 2020 One of the Composers for the „250 Piano Pieces for Beethoven International Composition Project 
  • 2021 Works highlighted on Universal Edition website and distributed world wide by Universal Edition Wien 
  • 2021 WorldVision Composition Contest Top 3

Seawave: 'Philippines-based music professor named one of the world’s best classical composers'
Link: https://seawavemag.com/2023/11/29/philippines-based-music-professor-named-one-of-the-worlds-best-classical-composers/

Email: hbacker@liceo.edu.ph