Hannes vester was born in hamburg on february 26th, 1952 and spent his childhood in heidelberg, new haven, new york and munich. he started his musical training at the age of 5 studying classical piano. His first record, on sophisticated rock music, was published in 1970 ("sub", help zslh 55023). the first film score followed in 1974 (a docudrama on formula ii car racing for bmw, premiered in paris) in which he worked with the munich symphony orchestra and the cologne radio symphony orchestra.

His work as a film composer includes cinema films (such as "gone underground", "track", "the key" and "triell"), various tv films and series in germany (like tatort "children of violence"), documentary films (e.g., "shaded blue"), publicity films (for example "camelot"), theatre music (e.g., "american buffalo"), music for computer games (such as "ecopolicy" which was acclaimed game of the year by the journal "stern" and received the european comenius award for best music), music for special events, such as the expo hannover ("planet e") and the unesco conference "man and the biosphere" in mexico, and the 16-channel surround music for the 360-degree cinema "cyclorama" ("mommy").

The stylistic breadth of hannes vester's music ranges from classical symphonic music to rock, pop, jazz, soul and contemporary avantgarde performances. Now, however, he devotes all of his creative energies to composing for film and television.

Hannes vester began long ago to emphasize the atmospheric component of a film score and to devote himself to the additional dramaturgical use of sound-design. He used surround-microphone positioning with a special audio crew for the first time on a film set for the creation of the atmospheric ambience of the award-winning short-film "gone underground". Not only was the brilliant work of cameraman michael ballhaus, twice nominated for an oscar, important for the grandiose success of the short-shocker under the direction of su turhan but also the impressive surround soundtrack played a fundamental part in its imposing appearance and was largely responsible for the great international reception.