A b o u t

Nik Bohnenberger was born in Luxembourg in 1994. At the age of five, he began his musical education by taking up the French Horn. In 2009 he attended the Conservatory of Luxembourg where, along with horn and piano, he took classes in singing, chamber music, sight-reading, harmony, counterpoint and musical analysis. From 2010 until 2013 he found early success as a composer for mainly symphonic wind orchestras and had multiple pieces premiered and recorded by the military orchestra of Luxembourg.

After he studied music pedagogy at the UdK Berlin from 2013-2018 he started studying composition with Elena Mendoza at the UdK Berlin, where he is now finishing his master's degree with Daniel Ott. He also received lessons from Carola Bauckholt, Matthew Shlomowitz, Franck Bedrossian and Clara Iannotta.

As a composer he has already worked with "Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg", "Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt-Oder", "United Instruments of Lucilin" and ''IRCAM". He has participated in the "Luxembourg Composition Academy" and the "impuls" Academy 2023 and festivals such as "rainy days", "ne(x)t generation", "Mixtur" and ''Manifeste''. Bohnenberger is co-founder of "KOLLEKTIV UNRUHE", a Berlin-based collective for composers and instrumentalists.

Bohnenberger's interests in composition lie inbetween his fascination for experimental instrumental and ensemble writing, his sometimes incorporated, sometimes independant electroacoustic works and his urge to find new theatrical and performative formats with an experimental intermediality: In October 2023, he received the DAAD Prize from the UdK for his intermedial project d|ecken. His first opera NACHT premiered at the Staatstheater Kassel in July 2024.

Since January 2025, Bohnenberger is the artistic manager of the Freiburg based Ensemble Recherche.