Gordon Kampe

Gordon Kampe (born 10 September 1976)[1] is a German composer and academic teacher.

[2] He completed an apprenticeship as an electrician in 1995 and studied after his Abitur composition with Hans-Joachim Hespos, Adriana Hölszky (Rostock) and Nicolaus A. Huber (Essen).

[2] In 2008, he finished his dissertation about fairy tale opera of the 20th century at the Folkwang University of the Arts.

[9] 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.

[10] Kampe has been a professor of composition and music theory at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg since 2017.