Steffen Schleiermacher has been played on NTS shows including Claire Milbrath, with In The Name Of The Holocaust first played on 15 January 2016.

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.