Gordon Kampe


Gordon Kampe is a German composer and academic teacher.

Career

Kampe was born in Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He completed an apprenticeship as an electrician in 1995 and studied after his Abitur composition with Hans-Joachim Hespos, Adriana Hölszky and Nicolaus A. Huber. In 2008, he finished his dissertation about fairy tale opera of the 20th century at the Folkwang University of the Arts.
Kampe is notably interested in the opera. Since 2009 he has written a number of commissioned works, among other for the Stuttgart State Opera, the Oldenburg State Theatre and the Deutsche Oper Berlin. The world premiere of PLÄTZE. DÄCHER. LEUTE. WEGE. Musiktheater für ein utopisches Bielefeld took place at Bielefeld Opera in 2015.
Kampe's opera Dogville, based on the film with the same name by Lars von Trier, premiered at the Aalto Theatre in Essen in 2023.
Kampe has been a professor of composition and music theory at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg since 2017. He lives and works in Hamburg, Germany.

Compositions (selection)