Torstein Aagaard-Nilsen

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Torstein Aagaard-Nilsen (born January 11, 1964 in Oslo ) is a contemporary Norwegian composer , arranger , conductor and music teacher .

Life

Torstein Aagaard-Nilsen grew up in Kabelvåg in Lofoten . From 1986 to 1990 he studied trumpet, music theory, composition and pedagogy, as well as mathematics at the University of Bergen at the music conservatory in Bergen, today's Edvard Grieg Academy . From 1990 to 1994 he was head of the department for new music at the University of Bergen. He was director of the Autunnale Festival in Bergen, which he founded in 1993 and which later became the Festival Borealis . In 1992 and 1993 he arranged and composed several pieces for the Forsvarets Stabsmusikkorps Vestlandet - Norwegian Army Band, Bergen (NABB) . In 2004 he founded a music festival with the Manger Musikklag wind orchestra , the BrassWind Festivalen, of which he is the artistic director to this day. For several years he was on the board of directors of the Norsk Composer Forum and Det Norske Composer Fund. In 2001/2002 and 2005/2006 he received a state artist grant. In 2007 he received a grant from the Hordaland Fylkeskommune . In 2016 he received the Radøy Commune Culture Prize . In 2016 he received the publisher's award for classical, contemporary music for his work Dirty Dancing . From July 30th to August 12th, 2018 he was composer-in-residence at the Sherborne Summer School of Music .

Torstein Aagaad-Nilsen lives in Manger in the Hordaland province in Norway. He is married to Hege Aagaard-Nilsen. They have four children together.

Works (selection)

Orchestral works

  • Concerto for violoncello and orchestra . 1995/1996. The work was performed with the Norwegian cellist Aage Kvalbein (* 1947).
  • Concerto for trumpet and string orchestra . 1996. Homage in four sentences. Commissioned by ISCM Norway-Bergen for trumpeter Ole Edvard Antonsen . This was the soloist at the world premiere in Bergen. Between 1997 and 1999 Aagaard-Nielsen revised the work again.
  • Concerto for trombone and string orchestra. 1998. The world premiere took place in Aarhus with the trombonist Jesper Juul Sørensen.
  • Concerto for tuba and orchestra , The Cry Of Fenrir . The work consists of one movement, which is divided into seven episodes. It was premiered in 1998 by Frode Amundsen in Oslo. The official world premiere took place in 2003 in Trondheim, the second performance of an edited version by Frode Amundsen and the Malmö Symfoniorkester in 2004. Another performance took place in 2006 with the Umeå Symphony Orchestra. The work was recorded by Eirik Gjerdevik and the Philharmonic Orchestra Pleen under the direction of Bjørn Breistein between 5th and 8th September 2011 in Plewen on Music for blue days at LAWO classics, LWC 1039
  • Concerto for euphonium and orchestra . Pierrot's Lament Pierrot's complaint. The work was premiered in Lahti in 2000 by Steven Mead and the Lahti Symphony Orchestra conducted by Osmo Vänskä .
  • Concerto No.2 for trombone and orchestra. Fanfares and Fairytales I Scherzando energico II Cadenza III Tranquillo - Energico. The Concerto is a commission for Per Kristian Svensen, Malmö, Sweden. It was recorded in 2005 by Svensen and the Malmö Symfoniorkester under the direction of Terje Boye Hansen.
  • Wind eyes . Commissioned for Ung Simfoni , a youth orchestra supported by Det Norske Composers Fund, and Kjell Seim, 2007. Wind Eyes is an old Anglo-Saxon term for windows. It is inspired by the poem Morgenrøden [Die Morgenröte] by Rolf Jacobsen , which he published in the Vrimmel collection of poems in 1935 , and was written for the 100th anniversary of his birthday.
  • .Boreas sings . Commissioned for the Arctic Philharmonic Orchestra with support from the Norwegian Cultural Fund , 2012
  • Tombeau . Commissioned for Ung Simfoni, 2013 Each of the three movements is based on a Latin hymn I A solis ortus cardine II Pange lingua gloriosi III Urbs beata Jerusalem
  • Bør . Three pieces about a poem by the Norwegian poet Stein Mehren for alto saxophone and string orchestra.
  • Boreas blows . Commissioned for the Stormen concert hall in Bodø . World premiere by the Arctic Philharmonic Orchestra under Christian Lindberg at the opening of the Stormen concert hall, live broadcast in the Norsk rikskringkasting NRK. Published in the Norsk Musikforlag. 2014
  • Ars vivendi for choir, vibraphone and string orchestra The work created in 2014 is based on the poetry collection of the same name by Georg Johannesen from 1999. Aagaard-Nielsen dedicated it to his wife Hege Aagaard-Nilsen.
  • Le Cuirassé Potemkine [ Potemkin ] was commissioned by the Orchester Régional de Basse-Normandie for the festival Borealis was in at the screening of the film in 2014 Caen premiered. The musical material is based on an old Orthodox hymn.
  • 5 songs based on poems by Stein Mehren . for mezzo-soprano and orchestra. 2016. Commissioned for the Meininger Hofkapelle , GMD Philippe Bach and the mezzo-soprano Carolina Krogius. The poems are from the cycle " Det andre lyset " [The second light] from 1989 by Stein Mehren .
  • Souvenir for orchestra and brass band Commissioned by Harald Eikaas, the former music director of the Norges Musikkorps Forbund on the occasion of the association's centenary on behalf of the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra and the Stavanger Brass Band, 2018

Opera

  • Ghosts . Aagaard Nielsen is currently working on the opera Gespenster . The libretto is by Malin Kjelsrud based on the drama Gespenster by Henrik Ibsen . The world premiere wasscheduled forMay 22, 2020 at the Meiningen State Theater . Due to the restrictions of the Corona crisis , the premiere was initially postponed to April 23, 2021.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Torstein Aagaard-Nilsen: Torstein Aagaard-Nilsen, curriculum vitae. Retrieved August 9, 2017 (Norwegian).
  2. ↑ Jan Hanchen Michelsen: Torstein Aagaard-Nilsen: Jubileumsårets «hoffverbindungen» In: https://musikkorps.no . Norges Musikkorps Forbund, January 25, 2018, accessed June 10, 2018 (Norwegian).
  3. ↑ Eirik Gjerdevik, Pleven Philharmonic Orchestra, Bjørn Breistein, Anneke Hodnett - Music For Blue Days. Retrieved August 23, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Aagaard-Nilsen, Torstein
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian composer, arranger, conductor and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Oslo , Norway