Kristine Tjøgersen

Kristine Tjøgersen’s (*1982 in Oslo, Norway) compositional practice is characterized by curiosity, imagination, humor and precision. Through her work, she creates unexpected auditory situations by playing with tradition. She has a special interest in the interplay between the visual and the auditory and how they affect each other.

Nature in motion and process is often reflected in her works, and collaboration with researchers and biologists is for her a source of new sound and scenic ideas that allows her to incorporate organic forms into the music. As Tjøgersen puts it, “By giving nature a voice in the concert hall, I want the audience to get to know valuable forms of life, and to raise awareness of what can be lost if humans continue to change nature.”

She holds a MA in composition from Anton Bruckner Universität in Linz, Austria, where she studied with Carola Bauckholt, and a MA in clarinet from the Norwegian Academy of Music, where she studied with Hans Christian Bræin. Her works have been performed by a. o. Ensemble Recherche, Klangforum Wien, Arditti Quartet, Kronos Quartet, Pinquins, SWR and WDR Symphonieorchester, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as festivals such as ECLAT, Ultraschall, Wien Modern, Tectonics, Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik and Ultima.

In 2019–20 she was a fellow at Akademie der Künste in Berlin, and in 2020 she received Norway’s Arne Nordheim Composer Prize, as well as the Pauline Hall Prize for her orchestra piece Bioluminescence. In 2021 she was awarded “Work of the Year” from the Norwegian Society of Composers for her Piano Concerto. In 2022 she won the International Rostrum of Composers in Palermo, and in 2023 she was the winner of Coup de Coeur des Jeunes Mélomanes from Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco for her orchestra work Between Trees. In 2024 she was awarded with the Edvard prize for her orchestra work Pelagic Dreamscape.

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