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Eva-Maria Houben (* 15 January 1955 in Rheinberg am Niederrhein) is a German composer, organist, pianist and musicologist and professor.

Life

Eva-Maria Houben grew up in Kamp-Lintfort. Her mother worked as a special education teacher, her father was a machine builder and presbyter at the Protestant village church in Hoerstgen. Eva-Maria Houben served as organist there during her secondary school years. After graduating from high school, she studied school music (1974-78) and artistic organ playing with Gisbert Schneider (1978-80) at the Folkwang-Hochschule Essen. Also among her teachers at the Folkwang-Hochschule were Mauricio Rosenmann Taub (music theory) and Ludger Maxsein (piano).

1978-82 Eva-Maria Houben was organist at the Protestant City Church in Dinslaken and studied German and musicology at the University of Duisburg. 1984-86 she taught music and German at the Gymnasium der Stadt Lennestadt and at the Gymnasium an der Gartenstraße in Mönchengladbach-Rheydt.

After receiving her doctorate (1986, with Norbert Linke) and habilitation (1990) in musicology, Eva-Maria Houben took on teaching positions at the University of Duisburg (1987-93) and the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf (1992/93). In 1993 she was appointed professor at the Institute for Music and Musicology at the Technical University of Dortmund. The focus of her research and teaching is music theory and new music. She organises concerts with compositions by students, who are also given the opportunity to exchange ideas with experienced colleagues in her series of composer portraits (since 1993 with Nikolaus Brass, Violeta Dinescu, Vinko Globokar and Adriana Hölszky, among others).

Eva-Maria Houben regularly publishes in journals (MusikTexte, Neue Musikzeitung, Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, Das Orchester, Positionen) and performs as an organist and pianist (including in the piano series at Kunstraum Düsseldorf).

Eva-Maria Houben’s compositions are published by Edition Wandelweiser; in the Wandelweiser Komponisten Ensemble she works with Antoine Beuger, Burkhard Schlothauer, Jürg Frey, Radu Malfatti and others. She is also particularly interested in integrative performance projects in which professional musicians and amateurs work together, and in the design of spatial sound installations which, in a specific location (e.g. in a church), point ahead to an upcoming concert or allow it to reverberate afterwards.

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