Simon Stockhausen has been played on NTS shows including Soup To Nuts w/ Ruf Dug, with High Ride first played on 9 January 2023.

Simon Stockhausen was born on the 5th of June 1967 near Cologne. At the age of five he commenced his musical education (piano, saxophone, drums, synthesizer, composition) and began performing in his father´s works at the age of 12. After his final exams 1986 he started touring the world with the Stockhausen ensemble and also co-produced the electronic music for two of the operas by his father. In 1996 their collaboration stopped.

The successful collaboration with his brother Markus Stockhausen over the last 20 years in the field of jazz and improvised music generated numerous CD-releases on record labels like ECM, EMI, LARGO, two compositions for the Cologne philharmonic and soundtracks for film- and theatreproductions. In 2005 they published their last album nonDUALITY.

Simon has also composed music for the Ensemble Modern Point of no Return 1993, Berliner Geschichten 1999, for the  Musikfabrik NRW Parametrics 1993, the Venice Biennale 1993, the IMD in Darmstadt Brandnächte 1996 and the WDR Bigband - JUBILEE 1996 and INNER CIRCLES 1997 and wrote chamber music for various ensembles.

Since 1998 Simon has composed and arranged music for many german theatres, the Berliner Ensemble, Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf, Staatstheater Mainz, Schauspiel Frankfurt and worked with directors like Peter Palitzsch, Ari Zinger and Burkhard C. Kosminski. He also did musical recitals with Hannah Shygullah (KRONOS KAIROS) and David Bennent(Gilgamesch 2000)

In 1999 he founded the band MIR together with Manos Tsangaris(CD-Release on Academy Label/Edel Records) and he is frequently involved in Manos music theatre-works as Co-Composer, SOunddesigner and player, most recently in the pieces I only appear to be dead for the danish theatre company Hotel Pro Forma(2005) as well as Centralstation (2006) and Botenstoffe - Orestie (2007) für the Cologne theatre.