Ben Hjertmann is a Chicago-based composer, performer, and genre vagabond. He serves as Artistic Director for The Sissy-Eared Mollycoddles in addition to performing as a vocalist with the group. Ben also moonlights in non-concert-music under the pseudonym Kong Must Dead. This one-man-band is expected release two albums in the summer of 2010, one of which features the rhymes of Chicago rapper Dre-Dub.
Ben Hjertmann, composer
Ben Hjertmann is a Chicago-based composer, performer, and genre vagabond. He serves as Artistic Director for The Sissy-Eared Mollycoddles in addition to performing as a vocalist with the group. Ben also moonlights in non-concert-music under the pseudonym Kong Must Dead. This one-man-band is expected release two albums in the summer of 2010, one of which features the rhymes of Chicago rapper Dre-Dub.
His recent work has been performed and/or recorded by The International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), The Callithumpian Consort, and The Sissy-Eared Mollycoddles. He also premiered an unfixed piece for digital sound which was performed in collaboration with Zephyr Dance Company in 2009. Ben is currently a Doctoral Fellow in Composition at Northwestern University. His principal composition teachers have been Hans Thomalla, Jay Alan Yim, Lee Hyla, and David Vayo.