About Jonah Haven

Jonah Nuoja Luo Haven (*1995 in Ohio, USA), laureate of the 2018 Bernd-Alois-Zimmermann Composition Prize of the City of Cologne, is a composer, improviser, and pianist. Driven by writers of Auto-theory, he composes as a way of bearing loose witness to his life — an expression of aging. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Oberlin Conservatory under the guidance of Josh Levine and Aaron Helgeson, a master’s degree from the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln with Brigitta Muntendorf, and is completing a Ph.D. at Harvard University with Chaya Czernowin.
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