Michael Wolters

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Michael Wolters is a British composer of German origin. He was born in 1971 in Mönchengladbach, Germany, grew up in Niederkrüchten, a small German village on the Dutch border and now lives in Birmingham, UK. After working as a care worker in a children's home and a runner at several theatres in Germany and Scarborough he studied Applied Theatre Studies at Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, Germany and Composition and Theatre Studies at the University of Huddersfield (BA, MA) and finally received his PhD in Composition from the University of Birmingham in 2003. His composition teachers include Christopher Fox, Heiner Goebbels, Patric Standford and Vic Hoyland. Since 2009 he has been Deputy Head of Composition at Birmingham Conservatoire. He is a founder member of the artists' collective New Guide to Opera. Provided by Wikipedia