Asbjørn Schaathun
Norwegian contemporary composer (born 1961)
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
External links
- List of Works supplied by the National Library of Norway
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- Peter Schat (1957)
- Otto Ketting (1958)
- Louis Andriessen (1959)
- Lars Johan Werle (1960)
- Misha Mengelberg, Per Nørgård, and Enrique Raxach (1961)
- Pauline Oliveros (1962)
- Arne Mellnäs (1963)
- Ib Nørholm (1964)
- Joep Straesser and Mario Bertoncini (1965)
- Alfred Janson and Ton Bruynèl (1966)
- Hans-Joachim Hespos, Costin Miereanu, Maurice Benhamou, Jean-Yves Bosseur, Tona Scherchen, and Ralph Lundsten – Leo Nilson (1967)
- Vinko Globokar (1968)
- Jos Kunst (1969)
- Jan Vriend (1970)
- John McGuire (1971)
- Daniel Lentz (1972)
- Maurice Weddington (1973)
- Christian Dethleffsen (1974)
- Robert Saxton (1975)
- Fabio Vacchi (1976)
- Șerban Nichifor (1977)
- Stefan Dragostinov (1978)
- Mauro Cardi (1984)
- Unsuk Chin (1985)
- Uros Rojko (1986)
- Karen Tanaka (1987)
- Michael Jarrell (1988)
- Richard Barrett (1989)
- Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf and Paolo Aralla (1990)
- Asbjørn Schaathun (1991)
- Jörg Birkenkötter (1992)
- David del Puerto (1993)
- Richard Ayres (1994)
- Michael Oesterle and Jesus Torres (1995)
- Régis Campo (1996)
- Hang Zou (1997)
- Kumiko Omura and Geoff Hannan (1998)
- Michel van der Aa (1999)
- Yannis Kyriakides (2000)
- Palle Dahlstedt and Takuya Imahori (2001)
- Valerio Murat (2002)
- Dmitri Kourliandski (2003)
- Sampo Haapamäki (2004)
- Oscar Bianchi (2005)
- Lefteris Papadimitriou and Gabriel Paiuk (2006)
- Christopher Trapani (2007)
- Huck Hodge (2008)
- Ted Hearne (2009)
- Marko Nikodijević (2010)
- Yoshiaki Onishi (2011)
- Konstantin Heuer (2012)
- Tobias Klich (2013)
- Anna Korsun (2014)
- Alexander Khubeev (2015)
- Anthony Vine (2016)
- Aart Strootman (2017)
- Sebastian Hilli (2018)
- Kelley Sheehan (2019)
- Annika Socolofsky (2021)
- Rohan Chander (2022)
- Zara Ali (2023)