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Luxembourger, born 4 December 1946, Pierre Even is a descendant of the Even Family from Beaufort (Luxembourg) and Metz (France). He studied 1959–66 piano and composition at the "Wiesbadener Konservatorium" in Wiesbaden with Karl-Wilhelm Bruehl and Heinrich Steuernagel. He studied law, music and history from 1966–73 at the Universities of Frankfurt, Wuerzburg and Mainz; history of music with Prof. Lothar Hoffmann-Erbrecht, esthetic of music with Prof. Theodor W. Adorno, and sacred music with Prof. Diethard Hellmann.
Pierre Even began composing in 1964. Performances of his works since 1966 have taken place by the "Luxembourg Sinfonietta" (cond. Marcel Wengler), the Chamber Orchestra of Luxembourg "Les musiciens" (cond. Nicolas Brochot), the "Johann-Strauss-Orchester Wiesbaden" (cond. Herbert Siebert and Wladislaw Brunner), the Soprano Byung-Lyul Lee (Korea), the "Duo Hao-Xing Liang – Pierre Alzin" (Violin/Piano, Luxembourg), Stephan Breith (Cello, Wiesbaden/Bayreuth), Susanne Duch (Piano, Wiesbaden), Kristi Becker (Piano, Cologne/Detmold), the members of the Orchestra of the State Opera of Wiesbaden (cond. Wolfgang Groth), the String Quartet "Quatuor Koch" Luxembourg (1st Violin: Laurence Koch, 2nd Violin: Francois Dopagne, Viola: Sarah Charlier, Cello: Dina Meunier); the Brass Quartet of the State Opera of Saarbrücken, the Clarinet Quartet of the "Conservatoire de Musique de la Ville de Luxembourg", the Woodwind-Trio of the "Wiesbadener Musikakademie", the Trombone Quartet of the "Wiesbadener Musikakademie", the Saxophone Quartet of the "Wiesbadener Musikakademie", the Ensemble Wolfgang Groth (cond. Wolfgang Groth), the "Kantorei der Lutherkirche", Wiesbaden (cond. Frank Staehle), the "Katholischer Kirchenchor Wiesbaden-Sonnenberg" (cond. Wolfgang Groth), the Organists Carlo Hommel (Luxembourg, Cathédrale Notre-Dame), Doris Hagel (Weilburg, Schlosskirche), Walter Haacke (Wiesbaden, Marktkirche), Reinhold Barbeler and Silvia Toth (Wiesbaden, Herz-Jesu-Kirche Sonnenberg), Wolfgang Kehr and Andreas Karthaeuser (Wiesbaden, Thalkirche Sonnenberg), and by the Orchestra of the Oranienschule Wiesbaden (cond. Pierre Even).