

Chronology
2022: | Peter Herborn Music for Question Quartet. CD rerelease at wismART |
2021: | Features of the Perception and Construction of Melodies / Merkmale der Perzeption und Konstruktion von Melodien. Zurich: emanobooks. Book publication. Bilingual. |
2017: | Woodstock Symphony. WDR Cologne. Broadcast production. WDR Radio Orchestra. |
2015: | Wild Nights, Wild Nights. WDR Cologne. Broadcast production. WDR Radio Choir. |
2012: | Tim Fischer singt Hildegard Knef. NDR Hannover. Broadcast production & CD production. NDR Pops Orchestra. |
2011: | The Forgotten Chords / Die vergessenen Akkorde. Rottenburg/N.: advancemusic. Book publication. Bilingual. |
2010: | Love Poems NDR Hamburg. Broadcast production. NDR Big Band & NDR Radio Choir |
2010: | Peter Herborn Music for Question Quartet. CD release |
2010: | Jazz Arrangement / Jazz Arranging. Rottenburg/N.: advancemusic. Book publication. Bilingual. |
2008: | Songs are memory. WDR Cologne. Broadcast production. WDR Big Band & WDR Radio Orchestra. |
2005: | Lorca. WDR Cologne. Broadcast production. WDR Radio Orchestra. Opera |
2002: | Large Two. CD release |
2001: | Writing on the edge. NDR Hamburg. Broadcast production. NDR Big Band. Composer arranger conductor |
2001: | Graz. Broadcast production. Jazz-Bigband Graz. Composer arranger conductor |
1999: | Ljubljana. Broadcast production. RTV Bigband. Composer arranger conductor |
1998: | Large One. CD release |
1998: | Ghetto. Joshua Sobol. Innsbruck State Theater. Composer of stage music |
1997: | NDR Hamburg. Broadcast production. NDR Big Band. Composer arranger conductor |
1996: | Helsinki. Broadcast production. UMO Jazz Orchestra. Composer arranger conductor |
1996: | Die Hochzeit. Elias Canetti. Innsbruck State Theater. Composer of stage music |
1995: | Jazz Arrangement. Rottenburg/N.: advancemusic. Book publication. |
1994: | European Forces. Composition commissioned for the celebrations of the European Union Summit in Essen. Composer conductor |
1994: | Macbeth. Shakespeare / Heiner Müller. Innsbruck State Theater. Composer of stage music |
1994: | The Kold Kage. The Music of Gary Thomas. WDR Cologne. Broadcast production. WDR Big Band. Arranger conductor |
1992: | Traces of Trane. CD release |
1992: | Something Personal. CD release |
1991: | Die Bluthochzeit.Federico Garcia Lorca. Göttingen German Theater. Composer of stage music |
1990: | WDR Cologne. Broadcast production. WDR Big Band. Arranger |
1988: | Peter Herborn’s Acute Insights. LP CD release |
1985: | Peter Herborn’s Acute Insights Subtle Wildness. LP release |
Woodstock Symphony
2017
WDR Cologne. Broadcast production. WDR Radio Orchestra.
Arranger conductor: Peter Herborn.
Kate Mc Garry: Vocals
Christof Lauer: soprano sax
Thomas Rückert: piano
Martin Gjakonowski: double bass
Thomas Alkier: drums.
Peter reimagines songs from the year 1969. He takes songs played at the festival and hits from the billboard charts of the year 1969 and puts them into a new light.
Wild Nights, Wild Nights
2015
WDR Cologne. Broadcast production. WDR Radio Choir.
Composer conductor: Peter Herborn.
Soloists:
Bobo Stenson: piano
Anders Jormin: double bass
Pernell Saturnino: percussion
Bodek Janke: percussion.
Peter creates a musical environment of sounds for the words of such renowned poets as William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Walt Whitman.
Tim Fischer singt Hildegard Knef
2012
NDR Hannover. Broadcast production & CD production. NDR Pops Orchestra.
Arranger (8 tracks): Peter Herborn.
Conductor: Enrique Ugarte.
Tim Fischer: vocals.
The recording is released on CD Tim Fischer 3 Sterne.
The enormously successful songs of the German diseuse Hildegard Knef were originally produced with a small band. Here they are embedded in the sound of an orchestra.
Love Poems
2010
NDR Hamburg. Broadcast production. NDR Big Band & NDR Radio Choir (Choir rehearsal: Bernhard Epstein).
Composer conductor electronics: Peter Herborn.
Poems by E.E.Cummings.
Soloists:
Almut Kühne: vocals
Pernell Saturnino: percussion
Bodek Janke: percussion.
During the recording the 1st alto sax player of the NDR Big Band said: Sounds like dance music of the future.
I. The Poems to come
II. Love is more thicker than forget / the every only god
III. Thy fingers make early flowers
IV. Love is a guess
V. I am so glad and very
VI. Yes is a pleasant Country
Songs are memory
2008
WDR Cologne. Broadcast production. WDR Big Band & WDR Radio Orchestra.
Arranger conductor: Peter Herborn.
Soloist:
Uwe Ochsenknecht: vocals.
These are the pieces Peter recreates for a musical picture that is as groovy as it is orchestral: Bridge over troubled water. Tracks of my tears. Homeward bound. Everlasting love. Stop in the name of love. When the music is over.

Lorca
2005
Based on fictional situations of his life, this opera tells the story of the Spanish writer Federico Garcia Lorca, beginning with his youth in Granada and ending with his early death as one of the first victims of the fascists in the Spanish Civil War.
Lorca’s homosexual disposition, his opposition to the Roman Catholic Church and the all-pervading machismo, his liberal basic attitude, his idea of theater as an education of the people, entirely in the sense of a Berthold Brecht or Erwin Piscator, led to his becoming an enemy image of the first rank for the fascists.
Obsessed since early childhood with the idea of death and the fear of it, he tried to escape the Civil War and its consequences. He went back to Granada, to the place where he was born. But instead of escaping the war, he runs into the arms of his murderers.
Thus, the opera LORCA represents the incarnation of a modern tragic hero who, like Oedipus in ancient mythology, runs all the more to his doom as he is trying to escape it.
WDR Cologne. Broadcast production. WDR-Funkhausorchester. Conductor: Michail Jurowski
With Thomas Dewald, Andres Felipe Orozco, Dominik Wortig, Timm de Jong, Thomas Bonni, Mechthild Georg, Anke Hoffmann, Reinhard Schulat, Michael Zanger, Markus Kloster, Monika Hess-Zanger
The Kold Kage - The music of Gary Thomas
1994
WDR Cologne. Broadcast production. WDR Big Band.
Arranger conductor: Peter Herborn.
Soloists:
Joe “BMW” Wesson: rap vocals.
Gary Thomas: tenor sax, flute. Tim Murphy: piano. Ed Howard: double bass. Gene Jackson: drums.
These are the pieces Peter recreates for a musical picture that is as groovy as it is orchestral: Bridge over troubled water. Tracks of my tears. Homeward bound. Everlasting love. Stop in the name of love. When the music is over.