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Dieter Mack was born in 1954 in Speyer and he studied composition, piano and music theory. After various lectureships he became professor for music theory in Freiburg in 1986 and since 2003 he is professor for composition at the MHS Lübeck. Various study and research trips led him mainly to Indonesia (altogether nine years), where he studied Balinese gamelan music. In 1982 he founded his own gamelan ensemble. Since 1988 he was also working in Indonesia’s music education as a guest lecturer, and from 1992 – 1995 even as a long term DAAD-guest lecturer at UPI Bandung. 1996 – 2007 he was consultant in an ethnomusicological-educational research project at UPI Bandung that was sponsored by the Ford Foundation. He is guest professor at the art academy ISI in Surakarta.

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