Oliver Korte is a composer, music theorist, and musicologist; he has been MHL Professor of Music Theory since 2006 and MHL Vice President since 2020. Prior to his appointment, he taught and conducted research at the Berlin University of the Arts, the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music Berlin, and the Rostock University of Music and Drama; a visiting professorship took him to Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in the 2017/18 winter semester. Korte is co-founder of the Society for Music Theory (GMTH) and editor of the Lübeck University of Music publications. In 2023, he was elected to the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. He studied composition, music theory, and musicology in Hamburg, Vienna, and Berlin, and received his doctorate in 2002 under Helga de la Motte-Haber with a thesis on Bernd Alois Zimmermann. His research focuses on music of the 20th and 21st centuries (publications on Haas, Mack, Nono, Romitelli, Webern, and Zimmermann, among others), compositional techniques around 1500, and the music of Beethoven and Mahler. Korte's compositional work has won several awards. He prefers to work on individual spatial and linguistic concepts. His larger works include the half-hour percussion concerto »Die Elemente« (The Elements) and the full-length space opera »Copernicus« for voices, large orchestra, and electronics, which premiered in 2015 at the European Center for the Arts in the Festspielhaus Dresden-Hellerau.