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 in 1986 he initiated the Oslo Sinfonietta. Schaathun also served as the director of the Norwegian Society of Composers from 2006 to 2012 and was appointed as professor in composition at the Norwegian Academy of Music in 2013. From 2010 to 2012, he served as the chairman of the Council of Nordic Composers.[2]

Schaathun is widely regarded as a pioneer in computer-aided composition on the Norwegian contemporary music scene. Parallel to his compositional career, Schaathun has also penned a number of articles on other composers and their music.[3]

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
  1. "Bio from Music Sales Classical". musicsalesclassical.com. Retrieved 13 February 2017.
  2. "Bio from MIC Music Information Centre Norway". listento.no. Retrieved 13 February 2017.
  3. "Bio from the Norwegian Academy of Music". nmh.no. Retrieved 13 February 2017.
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