Robert Platz (16/08/1951), a German composer. He was born in Baden-Baden. He studied with Wolfgang Fortner and Karlheinz Stockhausen, conductoring examination with Francis Travis. He received numerous prizes and awards, among them from the Rockefeller Foundation and the Japan Foundation. He gave concerts and performances at important festivals such as Musik der Zeit (WDR), Musica (Strasbourg), Rencontres Internationales (Metz), Donaueschingen, Witten, Holland Festival, Huddersfield, London, Salzburg Festival. He is director of the composition class at the Musikhochschule Maastricht.