The Bohlen-Pierce Symposium
First symposium on the Bohlen-Pierce scale, Boston, March 7 – 9, 2010
Ákos Hoffmann


Clarinetist

Ákos Hoffmann was born in Hamburg in 1973. From 1994 on he studied with prof. Sabine Meyer and prof. Reiner Wehle at Musikhochschule Lübeck. After having taken his diploma, he studied for prof. Thomas Franke at Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg. In 2006, he passed his soloist diploma with distinction.
He is a regular guest with several symphony orchestras, such as Münchner Kammerorchester and  Philharmonisches Orchester der Landeshauptstadt Kiel. Furthermore, he was invited to work with Bläserensemble Sabine Meyer.
Many concerts as a soloist as well as a chamber musician  led him to many European countries and even to China and Puerto Rico.
In 2001, he founded Salon del Mar and appears not only as a musician, but also as the ensemble´s arranger.
His clarinet formation Trio DeVienne was granted benefits by Kunststiftung HSH Nordbank under the auspices of Sabine Meyer from2004 to 2006.
Ákos Hoffmann regularly performs in education concerts at Hamburgische Staatsoper.
He joined the Bohlen-Pierce clarinet project in 2009.