Raphael Thoene

Raphael Dominique Thoene (born 17 March 1980) is a German composer and musicologist.

A scholarship recipient, he studied Film Scoring and Composition at the Berklee College of Music, Boston (USA).

He also received a PhD in Musicology at the University of Music and Performing Arts and the University of Vienna, Austria, writing his PhD thesis on Malcolm Arnold’s symphonic music.

As a composer, orchestrator and pianist, Thoene received commissions for the Orchesterakademie NRW, the International Contemporary Music Festival Ensemblia in 2005 and the Niederrheinischer Musikherbst in 2006.

He is currently on faculty as a Lecturer in Music Theory at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover (Germany).