Elmar Lampson

Elmar Lampson is a German composer and conductor, born in Koblenz in 1952, who led the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg as its president from 2004 to 2022. His catalogue includes symphonies, chamber and solo music, choral works and operas, and he taught the phenomenology of music as a professor at Witten/Herdecke University. Lampson studied composition and violin at the music academy in Hannover.