Hendrik Hofmeyr: Carl Orff Competition 2018 Eurydike

Hendrik Hofmeyr South African composer Hendrik Hofmeyr studied music at the University of Cape Town and, during ten years of self-imposed exile as a conscientious objector, in Italy. He achieved his first major success as composer with 'The Fall of the House of Usher', which won the South African Opera Competition and the Nederburg Opera Prize. In the same year, Hofmeyr obtained first prize in an international competition in Italy with music for a film by Wim Wenders. He has also won the prestigious Queen Elisabeth Competition of Belgium (with 'Raptus' for violin and orchestra) and the Mitropoulos Competition in Athens (with 'Byzantium' for high voice and orchestra). His 'Incantesimo' for flute was chosen to represent South Africa at the Congress of the International Society of Contemporary Music in Croatia in 2005. Hofmeyr, whose oeuvre includes more than a hundred commissioned works, is currently professor and Head of Composition and Music Theory at the University of Cape Town.