Jeff Hamburg


Jeff Hamburg is an American composer. Born in Philadelphia, he studied acoustics and composition at the University of Illinois and moved to the Netherlands in 1978 to continue his studies at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague with Louis Andriessen. In 1986, he received the Conservatory Prize. He further studied French Horn at the Royal Conservatory and later conducted classes with David Porcelijn at the Conservatory of Utrecht.
In 2002, Hamburg received the Visser-Neerlandia Music Prize for the outstanding quality of his oeuvre. From 2008 to 2015, Hamburg was chairman of the board of Geneco, the Dutch composer's guild.
His translation of The Apollonian Clockwork: On Stravinsky by Elmer Schönberger and Louis Andriessen is published by Oxford University Press.
Together with flutist Eleonore Pameijer, Hamburg started the Dutch cd label FutureClassics.

Selected works

Orchestral
Chamber music
Vocal works
Music theatre