Born on March 26, 1964 in Vienna, he went to school in Neunkirchen,
Lower Austria. During high school he received private piano and music
theory lessons with pianist and composer Wolfram Unger, and at that
time he made his first attempts at composing. After his school-leaving
certification in 1982 he studied at the Academy for Music and the
Performing Arts in Vienna (electro-acoustic and electronic music, music
theory, music education, singing teaching), at Vienna University
(history) and at the Vienna University of Technology (chemistry). He
graduated with a Master of Arts in 1992. Since 2006 he has been working
towards completing a doctorate at the Vienna University for Music and
at Vienna University. Major influences as regards his compositions were
gained through working with professors Karl Heinz Fuss and Heinz
Kratochwil. Heher also paid great attention to the political and
musical ideas of Hanns Eislers. In addition to his activities as a
composer he has put a lot of energy into organising concerts of
contemporary music (founder and chairman from 1988 to 2000 of "MUSIC ON
LINE"), since 1999 staff member of ORF/Ö1 as music review editor, and,
in addition, piano and singing teacher and musicologist (among other
things, publisher of a work by E. Wellesz and K. Weigl). In the field
of computers and new media, he has been the vice-president of the
Austrian Composers' Association since 2006, board member of the
IGNM/Section Austria from 2004 to 2006, board member of the Egon
Wellesz Fund with the Society of Friends of Music in Vienna since 1998.
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