I am a composer with a background from jazz, and my interest in music spans from a variety of different music. From folk music from all over the world to different “genres” of classical music. The last couple of years I have started to work more extensively with microtonality. Which has opened up a whole new world for me.
I have a master degree in composition from NTNU in Trondheim, where I studied with Ståle Kleiberg, and had secondary lessons with Jon Øivind Ness and Ellen Lindquist. Alongside this, I have also taken some private lessons with Asbjørn Schaathun, Marc Adderley and Jon Øivind Ness in Oslo.
I enjoy working with many formats of musical composition, from solo music to large orchestra pieces.
Im very intersted in musical gestures. I take alot of inspiration from the fysical movements of the musician/musicians playing an instrument. Always seeking to expand my kvowledge of different instruments, their playing tecnique, and their possibility of expression. From the softest pianissisimo, to the fortest forte. Therefore it is most exiting for me to work directly with musicians, developping tecniques, experiment, finding out possibilities with different tecniques, and their limitations. Rather then reading them from a book, Even if you end up with similar result.
The experience with sound, hearing/and imagining how the airsound from the flutist gradually goes into a note. The bows gentle touch on the string, going from the softest pp, to the hardest ff. The pressing down of a key on the piano, following its immediate reaction of the hammer pressing down on the string. Imagining sitting there in the room with the audience. Trying to communicato something. The smell of the room, the light, atmosphere and the color on the walls. The details that make out the whole. I think this is what matters most about composition for me. Both in my pieces, and in the performance, the details that makes out the whole.
Bjørn Marius