Thomas Buchholz

Thomas Walter Buchholz (born 27 August 1961) is a German composer and music educator. Life Buchholz was born in 1961 in Eisenach as the son of the oratorio singer and vocal pedagogue Kurt Wichmann and the concert pianist and music teacher Jutta Buchholz née Gensty. His father was editor of the vocal school of Pier Francesco Tosi. Buchholz went to school in Eisenach and from the age of six years he received lessons in singing, piano, organ and music theory at the Eisenacher Musikschule. Afterwards he trained as a piano maker at the Pianofortefabrik in Leipzig. Afterwards he worked as piano tuner in Eisenach and as musical instrument restorer at the Michaelstein Abbey in Blankenburg. From 1983 to 1988 Buchholz studied singing with Rudi Ploß, musical composition with Günter Neubert and music education with Hans-Georg Mehlhorn at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig. From 1988 to 1992 he was for composition with Ruth Zechlin at the Academy of Arts, Berlin. He also took composition courses with Rudolf Kelterborn, Witold Lutosławski and John Cage. From 1988 to 1992 he was assistant for music theory at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg. He taught instrumentation, cou