(b. 1956, Fulda).
German composer of mostly chamber, vocal and multimedia works that have been performed in Asia, Europe and North America.
Mr. Maierhof is self-taught as a composer and began composing in 1989. He earlier studied mathematics and music in Kassel, as well as art history and philosophy in Hamburg.
Among his honours are a scholarship from the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, selection three times by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Neue Musik (1998–2000), Erster Preis in the competition Neue Musik für Schülerorchester in Stuttgart (2005, for MINUS 1), the Kompositionspreis from the city of Stuttgart (2008), a prize in the competition ad libitum (2009), a residency at the Villa Aurora in Los Angeles (2011), and the Deutscher Musikautor*innenpreis der GEMA in the category Komposition Ensemble mit Elektronik (2019). His music has been performed in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Kazakhstan, Luxembourg, South Korea, Switzerland, the UK, and the USA, including twice at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse (1998, 2000).
He has also held other posts. He is a founding member of the artist network stock11.de in Hamburg and of the Verband für aktuelle Musik Hamburg. He has performed as a cellist in the improvisational trio NORDZUCKER in Berlin and Hamburg and in the quartet Stark Bewölkt in Hamburg, both since 2004.
He was an invited lecturer at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst Stuttgart and Trinity College, Dublin, both in 2001–02, at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, Santa Clarita, the Contemporary Music Centre in Dublin, the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg, and the Universität Mozarteum Salzburg, all in 2003, and later in Beijing, Córdoba, Argentina and Freiburg im Breisgau.
COMPLETE LIST OF WORKS
STAGE:
SCREAM (opera in 5 acts, libretto by Steffen Pohl), 2 mezzo-sopranos, 2 baritones, 4 male actors, small orchestra (22 players), 2001–03
Tanzstück "Circelgang", 2 female dancers, 2 percussion, 2003–04
Allertal-Ost (chamber opera, libretto von Steffen Pohl), 3 female voices, 2 male voices, flute, 2 guitars, piano, percussion, cello, double bass, 2006–09
EXIT G, soprano, countertenor, ensemble, swinging systems, motors, fixed media, 2013–15
ZONEN 4.2 (choreography by Claudia Senoner), 3 male dancers (with nylon strings), 2015
home opera#1: Kalter Schweiß, baritone, fixed media (4 tracks), film, 2019
home opera#2: Sodom und Gomorrha, soprano, fixed media (4 tracks), film, 2020
home opera#3: Demon Seed, baritone, fixed media (4 tracks), film, 2020
home opera#4: The Beautician, soprano, fixed media (4 tracks), film, 2022
ORCHESTRAL:
far and close, 10 or more accordions, 2000
shopping 2.1, small orchestra (16 players), 2004 (concert version of shopping 2)
EXIT C, large orchestra, resonating systems, 2004, revised 2010
MINUS 1, youth orchestra, 2005
ZONEN 6, 17 guitars, 2007–08, revised 2018
EXIT H, 2013
EXIT H1, 2013–16
CHAMBER MUSIC:
Artikel No. 0014 (Buche), prepared cello, 1994
Quartett für Streicher, plastic cups (4 players), 1996
Techno in Tüten, amplified plastic-bags (5 players), 1997
Plastikquartett 2, plastic cups (4 players), 1997
Bagatellen für Brahms, flute, violin, cello, bass guitar, percussion, 1997
rostfrei, flute, electric guitar, percussion, 1998
Alarm, flute, 1998
Pin up, string quartet, 1998
IIII-Felder, violin, viola, cello, 1998
x-fach 1, oboe, double bass, piano, percussion, 1998–99
speed, 3 prepared double basses, 1999
splitting 1, prepared double bass, 1999
splitting 2, prepared cello, 1999
perforation (with readymades), electric guitar, 2 cellos, 2 double basses, accordion, 2 percussion, 2000
Grauzonen/Blaustich, flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, 2000
PNM-Passages (Konzept), any 3 or more players, 2000
splitting 3, viola, fixed media, 2000 (also version for viola, fixed media, film)
splitting 4, percussion, fixed media, 2000 (also version for percussion, fixed media, film)
Untergrund 1, 4 percussion, 2000–01
SUGAR 1, violin, cello, piano, 2001
Untergrund 2, glass plates (5 players), 2001–02
splitting 17, flute, fixed media, 2002–03 (also version for flute, fixed media, film)
SUGAR 3.1, bass guitar, amplified accordion, 2002–03
SUGAR 3.2, bass guitar, amplified accordion, 2002–03
splitting 12, conductor, fixed media, 2003, revised 2005
SUGAR 3.3, bass guitar, amplified accordion, 2003–04
ein Objekt 1, viola, cello, piano, percussion, 2004
splitting 11, oboe, fixed media, 2001–05
splitting 14, cello, 2003–05
splitting 19.1, percussion, 2004–05
splitting 1.1, prepared double bass, 2005
shopping 4, balloons (3 players), 2005–06
splitting 9, harp, 2006
splitting 10, guitar, 2006
splitting 15, viola, fixed media, 2006
ZONEN 2, flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion, 2006–07
splitting 20 (Studio), any voice/any player, 2 sound objects, 2007, revised 2012
splitting 29.1, flute, amplified resonating system, fixed media, 2007, revised 2009
Untertonquartett 1, string quartet, 2006–08
splitting 29.2, flute, electronic keyboard, percussion, resonating systems, 2007–08
ZONEN 3, flute, piano, percussion, 2007–08
ZONEN 4.1, 6 players (with nylon strings), 2007–08
ZONEN 5, flute, clarinet, 2 violins, cello, double bass, percussion (with conductor), 2007–08
ZONEN 7, violin, viola, cello, 2 players (with nylon strings), 2008
splitting 27, cello, 2008–09
EXIT A (Staatsgalerie), clarinet, cello, double bass, percussion, 2 ad hoc players, conductor obbligato, resonating systems, 2009
splitting 13, alto saxophone, swinging system, fixed media, 2009–10
splitting 23, bassoon, swinging system, fixed media, 2010–11
EXIT E, violin, cello, piano, motor, swinging systems, 2010–11
splitting 25.1, player (with nylon strings), fixed media, 2011
splitting 39, glissando flute, amplified mouthpiece extension, fixed media, 2011–12
EXIT F, ensemble, hot air balloons, 2011–12
specific objects, 17 min., motors on readymades (6 players), 2011–12
specific objects, 11 min., sonic motors on snare drums (4 players), 2012
splitting 40.1, cello, swinging system, 2013
splitting 40.2, cello, swinging system, fixed media (2 tracks), 2013
splitting 40.3, 3 cellos, swinging systems, 2013
splitting 24, percussion, 2012–13
Minus 2, 4 cellos, 4 double basses, 8 fixed objects, 80 swinging objects, 2013
splitting 21 (Konzept), trumpet, swinging system, fixed media, 2013–14
splitting 30, clarinet, swinging system, fixed media, 2013–14
splitting 42, cello, sonic motors, fixed media, 2013–14
splitting 43, trumpet, swinging system, fixed media, 2013–14
specific objects, 10 min., plastic cups (3 players), microphone, 2013–14
specific objects, 9 min., 2 guitars as swinging systems, motors, 2013–15
ZONEN 8, blower (with amplified plastic cups), prepared cello, piano (2 players), 2014–15
Nahfeld 3 D, a, 4 percussion, 2014–15
shopping 4.1, balloons (4 players), 2014–15
splitting 25.2, player (with nylon strings), fixed media (6 tracks), 2015
splitting 25.3, player (with nylon strings), fixed media (4 tracks), 2015
splitting 25.4, player (with nylon strings), fixed media (2 tracks), 2015
splitting 32.1, player (with objects), motors, microphones, fixed media, 2015–16
splitting 32.2, 2 players (with objects), motors, microphones, 2015–16
splitting 32.3, 3 players (with objects), motors, microphones, 2015–16
splitting 33, amplified double bass, motors, 2015–16
schwingende Systeme, A, amplified ensemble (alto saxophone, English horn, trombone, double bass, piano, percussion, 3 ad hoc players) (with conductor), 2015–16
schwingende Systeme, B, 8 ad hoc players, 2015–16
specific objects, 12 min., 3 ad hoc players (with motors on objects), 2016
splitting 38 (9 Stücke), violin, 2013–17
splitting 56.1, electric guitar, cable, motor, fixed media, 2016–17
splitting 56.2, electric guitar, percussion (playing splitting 37), cable, 2016–17
splitting 41, percussion, 2017
splitting 44, cello, amplified cable, 2016–18
splitting 53, trombone, amplified cable, fixed media, 2016–18
splitting 51.1, amplified glissando flute, fixed media, 2018
6 Easy Pieces, amplified ensemble (bass clarinet, electric guitar, cello, piano, percussion), motors, cables, 2018
splitting 50, cello, cable, fixed media, 2018–19
schwingende Systeme, D, objects (played with motors, microphones) (4 players), 2018–20
splitting 47, bass clarinet mouthpiece, cable, fixed media, 2019–20
splitting 57.1, player (with nylon strings), fixed media, 2019–20
splitting 57.2, 3 players (with nylon strings), 2019–20
splitting 59, plastic bottle, sonic motors, 2019–20
splitting 61.1, plastic cups (1 player), motors, microphone, fixed media, 2021
splitting 61.2, plastic cups (3 players), motors, microphone, fixed media, 2021
splitting 62 (Pausen-Generator) (generator for pauses in pieces of any style and period), 2022
CHORAL:
Romanze mit heldischem Raben, mixed chorus, 1991
error, mixed chorus, 1997
EXIT B (text by Regina Klein [from the collection of Hans Prinzhorn]), 3 female voices, 2 male voices, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion, resonating systems, 2009–10
EXIT D (text by Malvina Schnorr von Carolsfeld [from the collection of Hans Prinzhorn]), 8 prepared mixed voices, 2009–10
VOCAL:
Wechselgesänge mit schwarzer Kreide auf Löschpapier II, 4 low female voices, 4 cellos, 1991–92
"Tintenhaube, drei Halbärmel, ein Perspektiv", soprano, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, fixed media, 1993
Rotonda III (Sternvisier), soprano, alto, flute, 2 clarinets, bassoon, trombone, tuba, 2 cellos, piano, 1993–95
Windkanal, soprano, piano, 1995 (also version for soprano, piano, percussion, 1995)
Relais, soprano, flute, accordion, percussion, 1996–97
multicolored Blumen 1–3, soprano, piano, 1999
error 2.0, soprano, violin, viola, cello, piano, 1999–2000
SUGAR 2, soprano, saxophone, harp, cello, accordion, 2001–03
splitting 18, voice, swinging system, fixed media, 2005–07
splitting 26, voice, fixed media, 2005–07
daily songs 1, voice, piano, 2006–07
daily songs 2, voice, piano, 2008
splitting 31, prepared baritone, fixed media, 2010–12
daily songs 3, prepared voice, fixed media, 2012
daily songs 4, baritone, piano, sonic motors, resonating systems, fixed media, 2012
daily songs 5 (6 Lieder), voice, resonating rooms, modulators, motor, fixed media, 2013–14
PIANO:
Klavierstück Nr. 1, 1989–90
Klavierstück Nr. 2, 1992–93
Drei kleine Stücke für Klavier, 1997
Drei kleine Stücke für Flügel plus, 1997
splitting 7, piano, balloon, 2002, revised 2010
splitting 16, 2002–03
splitting 28.1, 2005–07
splitting 36.1, piano, sonic motor, swinging systems, 2011
splitting 36.2, piano, resonating system, 2011
splitting 36.3, piano, motor, swinging systems, 2011
splitting 36.4, piano, sonic motors, swinging systems, fixed media, 2011
schwingende Systeme, C, piano (2 players), motors, 2016–17
splitting 45.1, amplified piano, motor, fixed media, 2016–19
splitting 45.2, 2 amplified pianos, 2 motors, 2016–19
MULTIMEDIA:
splitting 3, viola, fixed media, film, 2000 (version of work for viola, fixed media)
splitting 4, percussion, fixed media, film, 2000 (version of work for percussion, fixed media)
splitting 5, violin, fixed media, film, 2000–01
splitting 6, accordion, film, 2000–01
splitting 8, soprano, fixed media, film, 2000–01
splitting 8.1, clarinet, fixed media, film, 2000–01
Gravitation 1, piano, percussion, fixed media, film, 2000–01
shopping 1, balloons (21 players), film, 2001–02
shopping 2, small orchestra (16 players), film, 2003 (also concert version as shopping 2.1, small orchestra [16 players])
splitting 22, cello, fixed media (4 tracks), film (2 tracks), 2003–04
Gravitation 2, piano, percussion, film, 2005–06
splitting 17, flute, fixed media, film, 2007 (version of work for flute, fixed media)
splitting 34, motors ad libitum (3 players), film, 2013–15
daily songs 6, soprano, bass clarinet, swinging systems, live film, 2015
daily songs 6.1, soprano, bass clarinet, swinging systems, fixed media, live film, 2015–16
splitting 37, percussion, motors, microphone, slides, 2017 (part for percussion also used in splitting 56.2)
splitting 66 (Studie über identische Wiederholung), film, 2018
schwingende Systeme, E, soprano, violin, double bass, piano, cables, motors, light, text zooming, 2019–20
splitting 48 (Fran-Drescher-Studies I–III), player, objects, fixed media, film, light, 2020–21
splitting 49, conductor (with baton), LED light, 2019–22
specific objects, 20 min., 4 players, PET bottles, motors, LED light, 2020–22
specific objects, 60 min., objects (4 players), motors, LED light, 2020–22
splitting 35, sonic motor, television, film, 2022
splitting 55, percussion, underground space, light-saving fixed media, LED light, 2022
7 Easy Pieces, clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, trombone, electric guitar, violin, viola, cello, double bass, percussion (with conductor), motors, LED light, light technician, 2019–23
splitting 64, player, flute, LED light, film (2 tracks), 2022–23
splitting 69, player, sonic motors, slides, LED light, 2023
splitting 70, player, 2 LED lamps, film (2 tracks), 2023
8 Easy Pieces, 5 players, sonic motors, LED light, 2023
4 Easy Pieces, 4 players, sonic motors, LED light, 2023