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Walter Hekster
Born(1937-03-29)29 March 1937
Died31 December 2012(2012-12-31) (aged 75)
NationalityDutch
Occupation(s)Composer, clarinetist, conductor

Walter Hekster (29 March 1937 – 31 December 2012) was a Dutch composer, clarinetist and conductorofclassical music, specialising in contemporary classical music.

Biography

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Hekster graduated from the Amsterdam Academy of Music in 1961 studying composition with Ton de Leeuw and clarinet with Bram de Wilde. Upon his graduation he studied clarinet with Keith Wilson and composition with Mel PowellatYale University, where he received a Master of Music in 1963. In 1966 he studied with Roger SessionsinTanglewood.

In the meantime he performed as a clarinetist in the Netherlands Wind Ensemble and the Connecticut Symphony Orchestra.

In 1965 he accepted an appointment for professor of clarinet and composition at Brandon UniversityinManitoba, which he held until 1971. There he started conducting the Brandon Chamber Orchestra.

In 1971 he studied sonology at the University of Utrecht. He then taught at the music conservatories of Enschede, Arnhem, and Groningen until 1990. With the Rosetti Woodwind Quintet, Quartetto di Fiati, Ensemble '80, and the Circle Ensemble, he performed throughout Europe and the United States.

Walter Hekster was an extremely productive composer, creating music for a wide range of orchestra and chamber music settings. The Dutch not-for-profit publishing house Donemus published 134 of his works.

Hekster was married from 1962 to the US-born and Yale-educated bassoon player Alice Hekster-van Leuvan. The couple had two children, Ben Hekster and Suzy Hekster.

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