Steffen Schleiermacher (born May 3, 1960) is a German composer, pianist, and conductor.

After studying at the Leipizig Music School with Siegfried Thiele, he continued working at this institute as a music theory and ear training assistant. At the same time, he did his post graduate studies at the Köln Music School with Aloys Kontarsky.

In 1988, together with his peers - some of them belonged to the Leipzig Stringquartet - founded the Ensemble Avantgarde, which is committed to fostering Contemporary classical music until today. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.