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Martin Hiendl was born and raised in the Bavarian Forest in the south-east of Germany. His music involves both instrumental and electronic sources and examines ecstasy, large-scale processes and experimental notation. Hiendl's music has been played in Berlin, Frankfurt, Munich, at the ZKM Karlsruhe, the Hammer Museum Los Angeles and in San Diego. In Frankfurt he studied piano, conducting and composition with Beat Furrer, among others. He completed his studies in San Diego with Roger Reynolds holding a MA in composition. In 2010 Beat Furrer conducted the premiere of his short opera »Erwartung und Traumverlust« for which Claudia Doderer designed the stage. As a pianist he played and recorded Feldman's »For Philip Guston« with Rachel Beetz and Dustin Donahue and he conducted Fausto Romitelli's video opera »An Index of Metals«. As a recording engineer he worked with the ICE Ensemble (New York), the Red Light Ensemble (New York), the Formalist Quartet (Los Angeles), with Brian Brandt from Mode Records. In various workshops he met Peter Ablinger, Mark Andre, Pierluigi Billone, Orm Finnendahl, Heiner Goebbels, Klaus Lang, Phillippe Manoury, Brice Pauset, Enno Poppe, Miller Puckette, Vladimir Tarnopolski and others. He is currently living and working in Berlin.