A scholarship recipient, he studied Film Scoring and Composition at the Berklee College of Music, Boston (United States of America). He also received a Doctor of Philosophy in Musicology at the University of Music and Performing Arts and the University of Vienna, Austria, writing his Doctor of Philosophy thesis on Malcolm Arnold’s symphonic music
Raphael Doctorate. Thoene obtained a degree in Composition (Robert Schumann Hochschule, Germany) and Music Theory (Folkwang Hochschule in Essen, Germany). As a composer, orchestrator and pianist, Thoene received commissions for the Orchesterakademie North Rhine-Westphalia, the International Contemporary Music Festival Ensemblia in 2005 and the Niederrheinischer Musikherbst in 2006. He orchestrates film and theatre music, and is the author of the musical “Culture”, and co-author of the chamber-opera “Der Herr Gevatter” (staged in Saarbrücken, Düsseldorf and Munich).
He is currently on faculty as a Lecturer in Music Theory at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover (Germany).
