(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), and a residency at the Villa Aurora in Los Angeles (2011). 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 Ferienkurse in Darmstadt (1998, 2000).

He is also active in other positions. 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