Name: Daniel Hensel Day of birth: 17th of April 1978 Place of birth: Buedingen/ Germany
Wife: Dorota Ewa, born Nowicka Children: Anna-Maximiliane Geraldine Hensel, Johann-David Hensel, Rosemarie-Helene Hensel, Heinz-Ludwig and Quintus-Tadeusz Hensel Citizenship: German
First guitar lessons at the age of seven at Michael Winderling, according to first piano lessons at the age of twelve accomplished by Johann Baumann, from 1993 until 1994 piano lessons at Gerhard Schaubach, first attempts in composition.
Horst Werner my school teacher in music suggested the possibility of studying at Dr. Hoch´s Conservatory in Francfort\ Main. I agreed with that.
From 1994-1999 student of Gerhard Schedl in composition, counterpoint, harmony, basso continuo, and instrumentation in the so-called "amateur department" at Dr. Hoch´s Conservatory Francfort\ Main.
Besides that piano studies at Wolfgang Hess and Norbert Brecht, flute studies at Annegret Lucke at Dr. Hoch´s Conservatory in Francfort\ Main.
1997 diploma from German secondary school qualifying for university admission or matriculation at Wolfgang Ernst School Buedingen
1998-99 university preparation class in composition at Gerhard Schedl
1999 entrance examination at Prof. Heinz Winbeck Hochschule für Musik Wuerzburg
From winter term 99\ 00 until winter term 02\03 student of composition at Heinz Winbeck Hochschule für Musik Wuerzburg
2001 intermediate diploma in the main subject composition at Prof. Heinz Winbeck
2003 first meeting with Moritz Eggert
Summer term 2003 change over to Prof. Manfred Trojahn at Robert Schumann Hochschule Duesseldorf
11.2003 Guest of Prof.Wolfgang Rihm and in collaboration with Justus Frantz
27.01.04 Examination passed with distinction
From winter term 04\05 on studies at Prof. Michael Obst in post-graduate studies at HfM Weimar
On November 3rd, 2005 at 03:10 p.m. I married Mrs. Dorota Ewa Hensel (born Nowicka).
From winter term 2005 on to summer term 2008 studies in the masterclass of Prof. Heinz Winbeck at the HfM-Wuerzburg
Private studies at Joachim F.W. Schneider
12.25.08 birth of my daughter Anna-Maximiliane Geraldine
June 2010 cooperation with the Viennese publishing company Musikverlag Doblinger, publishing the string sextet op.20, "Klärchen´s Song"
Doctorate in music sciences at "Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst" Francfort, Main, under Prof. Dr. Peter Ackermann. Title of the dissertation: "From unity to a plurality or "the lust for subjectivity" - the music of Gerhard Schedl"
2011 start of a cooperation with the German filmmaker Edgar Reitz and begin composing the „Cardillac-Suite“ for Edgar Reitz‘ movie: „Cardillac“.
April 1st 2011:Publication of "Wilhelm Friedemann Bach - Epigone oder Originalgenie, verquere Erscheinung oder grosser Komponist?" at ibidem
June 22nd: birth of my son Johann-David Hensel
From April 2011 on, associate lecturer at "Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst", Francfort Main in musicology
July 13th: Dissertation and Disputation passed with „magna cum laude“
2010 - 2012 Selfstudies in electroacoustical Composition concerning "Computermusic", working with Csound, Max/MSP, Pure Data, SuperCollider and Java.
September 2011 Publication of the dissertation concerning Gerhard Schedls works
2012 begin of developing the music analyzing software „Palestrinizer“ with the developer Ingo Jache, based on an article from 1996 by Peter Ackermann for my habilitation project at the Martin-Luther-University in Halle/ Germany. Title of the habilitation treatise: „Modus, Klang- und Zeitgestaltung in Motetten Orlando di Lassos und Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrinas“ (Mode, Sounddesign and time-management in motets by Orlando di Lasso and Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina).
2012 editing Emanuel Aloys Förster´s „Anleitung zum General-Bass“ including the biography by Karl Weigl: Emanuel Aloys Förster
05.21.2015 Birth of the daughter Rosemarie-Helene
05.18.2016 Conclusion of the post-doctoral lecturer qualification and becoming ("Privatdozent") which is comparable to Associate Professor
07.01.2016 Handover of the habilitation-certificate and bearing the title Dr. p hil. habil. from then on
04.01.2018 „Lecturer for special Tasks“ at Saarland University
06.24.2018 Birth of Heinz-Ludwig Hensel
Composition commissions from the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra and HR2.
07/03/2020 Promotional prize of the Bach composition competition 2020 in Eisenach for the orchestral piece "Of one who set out to learn life".
"Advancement award for Daniel Hensel" on the website of the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts.
April 2021: Bridging grant from the Hessian Cultural Foundation
April 12, 2021: Release of the "Duo for Viola and Tuba" op.7 on Apple Music, Amazon Music and Spotify
October 2021 GEMA grant for the composition of the 1st (electro-acoustic) symphony