Thorsten Töpp
In the artist's words:
Composer, guitarist, improviser, radio playwright, theater musician, event organizer.
Studied composition with Heiner Goebbels and Wolfgang Rihm. Has composed works for Bernhard Wambach, Jörg Widmann, Dorothee Oberlinger, Janne Rättyä, and others, as well as for youth ensembles. To date, eight productions as part of the Duisburg Akzente festival. Theater music for, among others, the Schlosstheater Moers and the Theater an der Ruhr. Collaborations with numerous improvisational musicians, including Stefan Werni, Vincent Royer, Korhan Erel, Liz Allbee, and Josephine Bode. Co-organizer of the Traumzeit Festival 2009–2011, the Platzhirsch Festival in Duisburg since 2013, and the moers festival 2017–2022.