Asbjørn Schaathun Explained

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)

External links

• List of Works supplied by the National Library of Norway

Notes and References

1. Web site: Bio from Music Sales Classical . musicsalesclassical.com . 2017-02-13.
2. Web site: Bio from MIC Music Information Centre Norway . listento.no . 2017-02-13.