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Henning Lohner (born 17 July 1961) is a German born film score composer. He is a member of the Remote Control Productions (formerly known as Media Ventures) scoring team. He was raised in California and returned to Germany to study musicology, art history and romantic languages at Frankfurt University, from he which he graduated in 1987. He became composer Karlheinz Stockhausen's assistant in 1985, who introduced him to film composition. In 1996 he moved to Los Angeles to work at Remote Control Productions.
His film credits include The Ring Two and In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale.
Henning Lohner was raised in California to German emigrant parents. He returned to Germany to complete studies in musicology, art history and romantic languages at Frankfurt University, from which he graduated as MA in 1987. During this time, in 1984, Greek composer Iannis Xenakis became Lohner's life-long mentor. In 1985, Lohner became assistant for German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen; Stockhausen introduced Lohner to the visual media while working at La Scala in Milano on Stockhausen's opera "Licht". Work for Stockhausen lasted until Lohner began working both as a musical advisor and apprentice director for Louis Malle (1989-90, on the film "May Fools", starring Michel Piccoli). Henning Lohner has since focussed on sound and visual media. Now working steadily in the field of new music, theater and film, he has participated on projects such as Steve Reich's "The Cave" and "Different Trains", and Giorgio Strehler's theater spectacle of "Goethe's Faust I & II". Collaborations with Frank Zappa on "Peefeeyatko" (1991) and "The Yellow Shark" (1992), with John Cage on "one11 and 103" (1992), led to the music films "The Revenge of the Dead Indians" (1993), and "In a Metal Mood" (1996, starring Pat Boone). Henning Lohner's audio-visual installation "raw material, vol. 1-11" (1995) has toured prominent venues in continental Europe, including the Gemeente Museum, The Hague, the Sonic Art Festival in Rome and the Video Art Festival of Berlin. This work, as well as the compositional method that he employs in his music, was largely inspired by the friendship and style of painter Gerhard Richter. Since 1996, Henning Lohner has been living in Los Angeles and working as a composer at the "Media Ventures" film music studios founded by composer Hans Zimmer.






