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Walter Hekster (born March 29, 1937 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch composer, clarinetist and conductor of classical music, specializing in contemporary classical music.
Studying composition with Ton de Leeuw and clarinet with Bram de Wilde, he graduated from the Conservatoire of Amsterdam in 1961. Upon his graduation he studied clarinet with Keith Wilson and composition with Mel Powell at Yale University, where he received a Master of Music in 1963. In 1966 he studied with Roger Sessions in Tanglewood.
In the meantime he had started performing as a clarinetist in the Netherlands Wind Ensemble, the Concertgebouw Orchestra and the Connecticut Symphony Orchestra.
In 1965 he accepted a professor of clarinet and composition appointment at Brandon University in Manitoba, which he held until 1971. Here he started conducting the Brandon Chamber Orchestra.
In 1971 he studied at the University of Utrecht. He then taught at the conservatories of Enschede, Arnhem, and Groningen until 1990. With Rosetti Woodwind Quintet, Quartetto di Fiati, Ensemble '80, and the Circle Ensemble, he preformed throughout Europe and the United States.
Walter Hekster is an extremely productive composer, creating music for a wide range of orchestra and chamber music settings. The Dutch not-for-profit publishing house Donemus published 134 works by Walter Hekster. Among his most noted compositions are Pentagram for Woodwind Quintet (1971) and The Fog: Chamber Opera in One Act (1987; libretto by Lewis Turco).
Discography
Works by Hekster
- Summer's End (Emergo)
Hekster and other composers
- Eclipse on Ereprijs Ensemble (Klimop)
- Harmonologue on Dirk Luijmes (BV Haast)
- Songs of the Japanese on Conservatoire of Twente
- Piano Sonata (1966) on Bart Berman, piano (Golf, 1978)
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