Jens Joneleit (b. 17 September 1968 in Offenbach/Main) lived and studied (fine arts and composition) in the USA with Lewis Hamvas (Yankton/South Dakota), Robert Marek and Stephen Yarbrough (Vermillion/South Dakota), since 1994 Joel Naumann (University of Wisconsin, Madison). After his Master of Fine Arts degree in 1997, Jens Joneleit is a freelance composer who lives in Frankfurt/Main today.