Henning Lohner
- Composer
- Director
- Writer
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Henning Lohner was raised near Palo Alto, California, to German
emigrant parents. He returned to Germany to complete studies in
musicology at Frankfurt University, from which he graduated as MA in
1987. In 1985, Lohner became assistant to German composer Karlheinz
Stockhausen; Stockhausen introduced Lohner to the visual media while
working at La Scala in Milano on Stockhausen's opera "Licht". In 1989
Lohner became musical advisor for Louis Malle (1989-90, on the film
"May Fools", starring Michel Piccoli). Long-term collaborations with
Frank Zappa resulted in roles as music producer for film and music
projects such as "Peefeeyatko" (1991) and "The Yellow Shark" (1992),
and with John Cage, on "one11 and 103" (1992), as well as producing and
directing the music films "The Revenge of the Dead Indians" (1993), and
"In a Metal Mood" (1996, starring Pat Boone). Henning's audio-visual
installation " raw material, vol. 1-11" (as of 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. In 1996, Henning moved to Los Angeles and worked as a composer
at "Media Ventures" (now "Remote Control") film music studios, founded
by composer Hans Zimmer. After apprenticeships on such films as "Broken
Arrow", "Gladiator" and "Thin Red Line", Henning wrote additional music
for Hans's film scores to "Laura's Star", the Jim Brooks directed
"Spanglish", and co-composed the "Ring One", starring Naomi Watts.
Consequently, Henning has scored over 40 feature films to date. He
particularly enjoys scoring horror/thriller films and this has led to
Henning composing film scores such as "The Ring Two" (again starring
Naomi Watts), "Bloodrayne" (starring Sir Ben Kingsley, Kristana Loken,
and Michael Madsen), the horror/thriller "Timber Falls" for producer
Arnold Rifkin and the epic tale "Dungeon Seige - In the Name of the
King" (starring Jason Stratham, Bert Reynolds, and Ray Liotta).
Balancing out his affection for "nightmare films", Henning loves
scoring comedies (e.g. "Incident at Loch Ness" by/starring Werner
Herzog & Zak Penn), romantic comedies ("Love Comes Lately" which
premiered at Sundance in 2008), drama and family films (such as the
European hit animations "Laura' s Christmas" or "Der kleine Dodo").
More recently Henning scored the beautiful Italian coming-of-age film
"Marcello Marcello", set in a Napolitain city of the 50s, in which a
young man overcomes the hurdles of wining the heart of the major's
daughter. In his spare time Henning teaches as Guest Professor at the
renowned Zurich Academy for Music and Theatre. Henning spends his time
between Berlin, London and Los Angeles.