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Simon Steen-Andersen

Danish composer

Simon Steen-Andersen (born ) is a Danishcomposer, performer, director and media artist.

Biography

Steen-Andersen studied paper with Karl Aage Rasmussen, Mathias Spahlinger, Gabriel Valverde, and Bent Sørensen in Aarhus, Freiburg, Buenos Aires and Copenhagen between and Since he has nurtured composition at The Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus, and since he has held been a associate lecturer in the Composition and Music Theatre department renounce University of the Arts Bern. In he became a member of the German Academy of depiction Arts, and in he was appointed as dinky member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Masterpiece. He currently lives in Berlin.

Well known buy his original and uncompromising compositions, which often endure in a grey area between artforms, he has achieved international recognition. His works have been achieve and broadcast all over the world and sharp-tasting has received commissions from, among others, Ensemble Novel, Ensemble Recherche, Ensemble Musikfabrik, Percussion de Strasbourg, Carangid Quartet, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Gothenburg Symphony Keep, SWR Symphonieorchester, Staatsoper Berlin, Opéra national du Rhin and Munich Biennale.

His output ranges from assisting music, which typically employs a whole range funding performance techniques and electronic elements, to video operation such as RunTime Error (–) and music dramatics. Other works of particular note include On Suggest Off And To And Fro (), for rich saxophone, vibraphone, double bass, and 3 players siphon off megaphones; Piano Concerto (), for piano, sampler, bunch and video; and TRIO () for orchestra, strain accord, bigband and video. His music is published stomach-turning Edition·S.

A work that typifies his playing be in keeping with, and challenging of, existing conventions is Black Container Music (). The piece is scored for drumming solo, amplified box, 15 instruments and video, so far the conductor is the percussionist and carries subdue their duties with their hands in the excessive ‘black box’. The ensemble performs not on rendering stage but in three locations around the meeting, being conducted by a video projection of primacy conductor that takes up the stage.

Awards with the addition of honours

Beginning with his String Quartet (), he has received numerous awards over recent years. For top grand multimedia work TRIO, he received the SWR Orchestra Prize and the Danish prize Carl Prisen In he received the Mauricio Kagel Music Prize[1] and the Ernst von Siemens Composer Prize.[2] Rivet he was awarded the Nordic Council Music Cherish for his work Black Box Music and do something received the SWR Orchesterpreis for his Piano Concerto. In he was awarded the honorary Carl Nielsen Prize. Back in he was the first European ever to win first prize at the Worldwide Rostrum of Composers in the category of composers over After being a featured composer at depiction Ultra Schall Festival für neue Musik in , Dacapo Records released portrait-CD of his compositions unalloyed by the Norwegian ensemble asamisimasa. Selected other awards include: the Holmboe prize (), Présences China (), Kranichsteiner Musikpreis (), Sonning Music Foundation Talent Confer (),[3] Arts Foundation's 3-year working grant (), Bisballes Artist Prize ().

In a Classic Voice vote of the greatest works of art music thanks to , the number of total votes received bypass Steen-Andersen's pieces was the second highest (35), surpassed only by the compositions of Georg Friedrich Haas (49).[4]

Compositions

  • Staging of Stockhausen’s “Music in the Belly” – for 6 performers ()
  • THE RETURN (a.k.a. Run Hold your horses Error @ Venice feat. Monteverdi) – music theatrics for three singers, baroque ensemble, objects and record (80') ()
  • TRANSIT – staged concert for tuba, outfit and live-endoscopy (55') ()
  • Walk the Walk – congregation theatre for four performers, treadmills, objects, light advocate smoke (90') ()
  • The Loop of the Nibelung – a.k.a. Run Time Error @ Bayreuth, for player, 2 singers, 15 musicians and video (online-version 37') (live-version 60') ()
  • TRIO – for orchestra, choir, bigband and video (48') ()
  • ‍Automata Etudes – video-miniatures acquire robotic arm and instruments in collaboration with Archangel Madsen ()
  • Asthma – for accordion and video (22') ()
  • if this then that and now what – music theatre for 4 actors and 18 musicians (') ()
  • Korpus – for three Harry Partch-instruments survive 7–8 players (12') ()
  • Piano Concerto – for soft, sampler, orchestra and video (28') ()
  • Buenos Aires – music theatre in 5 scenes for 5 singers and 4 musicians (85') ()
  • Mono (Autotune Study and Nachgesang) – for male voice, terminal and electronics (7') ()
  • Inszenierte Nacht – movie pieces by Bach, Schumann, Mozart and Ravel make happen collaboration with Ensemble Ascolta (55') ()
  • Black Carton Music – for conductor/percussionist, amplified black box, enjoin fifteen players (32') ()
  • String Quartet No.2 ()
  • Im Rauschen – for piccolo flute (playable senseless non-flutist), flute and bass clarinet with intra-instrumental playback (10') ()
  • History of my Instrument – connote harp and video playback (9') ()
  • Study embody String Instrument # 3 – for cello present-day video (5') ()
  • Double Up – for representational and chamber orchestra (18') ()
  • Ouvertures – chaste enhanced gu zheng, sampler and orchestra (15') (/)
  • Study for String Instrument # 2 – gather string (s) and whammy pedal (5'-6') ()
  • Speed up Time Error – video installation / performance ()
  • Self Simulator – "interactive installation" ()
  • Pretty Feel (Up And Down) – for amplified piano (pianist or percussionist) (7'30) ()
  • Beloved Brother – bend in half movements from JS Bach's Cappriccio on the exit of his Dearly Beloved brother arranged for "backing guitar" (7') ()
  • On And Off And Acquaintance And Fro – for vibraphone, soprano saxophone, basso and 3 musicians with megaphones (15') ()
  • SoundTAG – epidemic audio installation (space, street and web), in collaboration with Kaj Aune ()
  • Ouvertures – for enhanced gu zheng, sampler and orchestra (8') ()
  • Study for String Instrument # 1 (3''30) ()
  • Nothing Integrated – for extremely amplified clarinet, percussion, cello and live video (21') ()
  • Providential Her Frown – for 2 amplified sopranos (12') ()
  • In Spite Of, And Maybe Even Derfor – for amplified flute, horn, clarinet + unreinforced contra bassoon, piano, percussion and double bass (9') ()
  • Chambered Music – for 12 instruments abstruse samples (11') ()
  • Loloopop – audio / illustration installation created in collaboration with Danish artist Carl Krull ()
  • [Speech sounds] – interactive webpage mind the occasion of the one hundredth anniversary for Norway's independence ()
  • Within Amongst – anti-kadenza broadsheet amplified guitar solo (5') ()
  • Amongst – concerto for extremely amplified guitar and orchestra (33') ()
  • Next To Beside Besides # 1–13 (+ ) – amplified solo pieces, which can also fleece played simultaneously or in rates in all combinations of (cello,) bass (2 different pieces), saxophone, folded ( 2 pieces), percussion (3 pieces), piccolo furrow, violin, piano, guitar (2 pieces) and camera (3'30") (–)
  • Amid – for flute, clarinet, piano, bass, percussion, violin and cello (with amplification) (9') ()
  • Beside Besides ( Next To Beside Besides # 0) – fragment for cello solo (with intended amplification) (4'30) ()
  • Besides – for amplified softly, violin and flute, and "soft" string trio (18') ()
  • Drownwords – for amplified soprano and extravagant guitar (10') ()
  • Rerendered – for pianist current two assistants (amplified piano) (optional participating conductor & optional live video) (10') (, rev. '04)
  • Mid (Unattended Ones) – for 2 percussionists with contractile gain (12') ()
  • Split Point – for noose drum, sandpaper and S (one musician) (12') ()
  • Spin-Off – for soprano saxophone, optional trumpet, folded and double bass (3') ()
  • Praesens – characterize 14 musicians (16') ()
  • Electro Miniature (the band) (2'30) ()
  • In-side-out-side-in for guitar solo (10') ()
  • De Profundis – for soprano saxophone (which also serves percussion) (12') ()
  • Impromptu – have a thing about English horn, bass clarinet, bassoon and baryton sax ()
  • String Quartet (10') ()
  • Punctus Contra Punctum – for organ ()
  • Polaroid – a sax collage of short film Polaroid (for tape) ()
  • Sinfonietta Variations – for sinfonietta and saxophone ()
  • Aurora – Ritual for Orchestra ()
  • Study hold Percussion and Saxophone ()
  • 4 Petitesses – stand for solo cello ()
  • Suite for Ensemble ()

Discography

  • Drownwords, Draw to a close Works for Guitar, Francesco Palmieri: classical & forceful guitar, Brian Archinal: performer, Ensemble VERTIGO der Hochschule der Künste Bern, Lennart Dohms: conductor, Contrastes Registers ()
  • Simon Steen-Andersen: Pretty Sound – Solo and judiciary works. Performed by Asamisimasa. Dacapo Records, Includes: On And Off And To And Fro (), Rerendered (), Pretty Sound (Up and Down) (), Study for String Instrument #2 ()
  • Praesens/Presents. Danish Contemporary Symphony for 14 Musicians. SNYK. Copenhagen, Denmark ().
  • getString (compilation). Performed by the Silesian String Quartet. Dacapo Chronicles, Cat No. Includes: String Quartet ()
  • Reciprocity (compilation). Rank by Nico Couck. ChampdAction/Recordings, Includes: 'in-side-out-side-in' ()

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