Ola Gjeilo

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Ola Gjeilo (* 5. May 1978 in Skui , municipality Bærum in Fylke Akershus , Norway ) is a Norwegian pianist and composer . The name is pronounced roughly like Jeilu.

Life

After attending the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo and the Royal College of Music in London , Gjeilo attended the New York Juilliard School from 2001 . After this training as a composer, which he graduated with a diploma in 2006, he mainly wrote choral works, pieces for wind orchestra and piano music. Gjeilo lives in New York.

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He presented a selection of his own piano pieces as an interpreter for the first time in 2007 when he released the album Stone Rose ; piano improvisations followed five years later . Which also in 2012 published CD with works Gjeilos the Chamber Choir Phoenix Chorale , Northern Lights , was recorded in the charts. Gjeilo, who also took film music courses, writes music influenced by classical, jazz, folk and pop music. Other works include Sunrise Mass , a mass for eight-part choir and string orchestra and Song of the Universal , for four-part choir, piano and string orchestra based on a text by Walt Whitman .

Typical of Gjeilo's choral works are dense carpets of sound made up of polyphonic clusters and long, layered chords with long holding or holding over individual voices. In accompanied works, there are sometimes rapid repeating patterns in the instrumental parts. He often uses texts from the Latin church music tradition for his compositions.

Web links

Commons : Ola Gjeilo  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ list at WaltonMusic
  2. ↑ choralnet.org ( Memento of the original from November 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.choralnet.org
  3. ↑ Komponistenporträt on Stifts-Chor-Bonn.de
  4. ↑ This remedy was used intensively, for example in Sunrise Mass in the first and fourth movements.
  5. ↑ This stylistic device was used intensively for almost the entire piece in Meridian, for example .
personal data
SURNAME Gjeilo, Ola
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian pianist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH May 5th 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Skui near Bærum , Fylke Akershus , Norway