Hector Docx is a composer and pianist based in Hamburg, Germany. In 2018, he was the recipient of a scholarship from the Horst and Gretl Will Foundation in Cologne.

At the core of his work is the motivation to create a lasting interest in classical music among a wider audience and to redefine the role of the composer and concert pianist from a modern perspective. Curiosity about the unknown led Docx to take a close look at the piano pieces of the Russian avant-garde in 2016 – a group of Russian composers who were renowned artists before the Russian Revolution of 1917. He launched his own festival, ‘Klang der Unruhe’ (Sound of Restlessness), to introduce a selection of influential unknown music from this period to a wider audience. In December 2016, he was awarded the DAAD Prize for his commitment to the festival.

In mid-2018, he launched his project: ‘The Nobodies of Venezuela – The Sound of a Broken Country.’ The project presented itself as a ‘sounding art installation’ that deals with the political and social state of emergency in Venezuela. In 2018, he received a commission from the Brazilian-German Mahler Delmar Mavignier in connection with the Sao Paolo Gallery to compose a work based on one of his new paintings. The work and the painting will be premiered in Brazil in May 2019.

Two premieres of his works are scheduled for 2019. The first is an orchestral work that refers to Prometheus and other titans of Greek mythology. The second is a commission from the Kammerakademie Potsdam in connection with the Lindenstraße Memorial Foundation for their project ‘Sounds behind Walls’. It is about the stories and acoustic experiences of the former inmates of the Stasi prison in Lindenstraße in Potsdam. These experiences should be recorded for posterity and artistically conveyed to different generations in the context of a new musical work.
https://www.hectordocx.com