Friedrich Heinrich Kern Musical artist
Friedrich Heinrich Kern (born March 19, 1980 in Ludwigshafen) is a German composer and pianist.Kern began his studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Mannheim where he graduated with a Diplom in Music Composition and Piano. His principal teachers included Ulrich Leyendecker and Sidney Corbett. Additionally, he spent one year studying traditional Korean music at Seoul National University. In 2007, he was a visiting composer at Wesleyan University. From 2008, Kern studied in New York with Matthias Pintscher and Louis Karchin.He received a MacCracken Research Fellowship and now teaches at New York University.
