Asbjørn Schaathun
Asbjørn Schaathun (born 22 June 1961) is a Norwegian contemporary composer.
Career
Schaathun studied at the Norwegian Academy of Music and Royal College of Music in London and IRCAM in Paris.[1]
Schaathun founded the Norwegian Academy of Music's Contemporary Music Ensemble and the Oslo Sinfonietta.[2]
Prizes and awards
- 1987 Norwegian Society of Composers: «Performer of the Year» as artistic director for Oslo Sinfonietta
- 1991 The Gaudeamus Fondation's Louis Vuitton Prize for his bass clarinet concerto "Actions, Interpolations and Analyses".
- 1992 Bang & Olufsen's Music Prize.
- 2008 The Lindeman Prize
Production
Selected works
- Ohne Titel – London 1985 (2016–17)
- Nations for piano and orchestra (2015–16)
- Concerto Grosso (2014)
- Lament II for chamber ensemble (2013–14)
- Wie die Zeit die Materie verändert (III) for orchestra (2007)
- Musical Graffiti II, "virtuoso drawings for amplified piano, large ensemble and tape with cosmic sounds" (1983–84)
- Physis for piano and live-electronics (1986/2003)
- Action, Interpolations and Analyses, concerto for bass clarinet and large ensemble (1988–90)
- Double Portrait" for violin and large ensemble (1991-92/1996/2002-06)
- "s" – Miniatüre pour ensemble (1992)
- A Tabular System... for horn, oboe, harp and percussion (1988/1994-95)
Discography
- Nordic Voices, Djånki Don (2008)
- Stavanger New Music Ensemble, 1-2-3 Happy Happy Happy! (2001)
- Oslo Sinfonietta, Actions, Interpolations & Analyses (1995)
- Håkon Austbø, Wanted (2011)
- Frode Haltli, Looking on darkness (2002)
- Cikada Ensemble, Svorsk, Swegian (1996)
- The Cikada Ensemble (1992)
- Kenneth Karlsson – the view was all in lines (2012)
References
- ^ "Bio from Music Sales Classical". musicsalesclassical.com. Retrieved 13 February 2017.
- ^ "Bio from MIC Music Information Centre Norway". listento.no. Retrieved 13 February 2017.