Jan Martin Smørdal (born 14 October 1978 in
Horten
is a town and municipality in Vestfold in Vestfold og Telemark county, Norway—located along the Oslofjord. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Horten. The municipality also includes the town of Åsgårdstrand an ...
) is a
Norwegian composer, arranger, producer and guitarist.
Smørdal holds a master's degree in Jazz Performance, and composition from the
Norwegian Academy of Music and has studied with
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Born in Bærum, Norway, Hellstenius studied musicology at the University of Oslo and composition with Lasse Thoresen, Olav Anton Thommessen and Bjørn Kruse at the ...
and
Lasse Thoresen
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Biography
Thoresen was born in Oslo in ...
.
As a guitarist, Smørdal has contributed to a number of releases, both in band as well as solo settings, and has been a member of the live bands of
Hanne Hukkelberg
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Hukkelberg started singing and playing instruments at the age of 3. In her youth, she was a vocalist covering genres such as jazz, rock, ...
, Navyelectre and
Rockettothesky (
Jenny Hval
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). As a producer, Smørdal has worked with such performers and composers as
Torgeir Vassvik
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Rockettothesky,
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Background
Asheim is educated at Norges Musikkhøgskole and the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam. His prod ...
and Siri Nilsen. Smørdal has contributed to a number of releases that have been bestowed with a
Spellemannprisen Award.
As a co-founder of Ensemble neoN, Smørdal has collaborated with performers and composers such as
Oren Ambarchi, Marina Rosenfeld and
Susanna Wallumrød.
Smørdal has composed music for a variety of settings, ranging from solo to orchestra, installations and choir. His works have seen performances at the
MATA Festival, the
ISCM
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The organization was established in Salzburg in 1922 as Internationale Gesellschaft für Neue Musik (IGNM) following the ...
Festival in
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Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival
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Background
Ultima is Scandinavia's largest contemporary music festival, and since 1991 it has been a key arena for contemporary music and related art ...
and
Nordic Music Days
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.
Production
Selected works
*''Q.S. 1'' (2003)
*''Ichi'' - clarinet in Bb & bass clarinet (2005)
*''manT.E.L. '' - clarinet in A, cello, tape (2006)
*''less-sense'' - soprano, clarinet in A, percussion (2007)
*''Me siglar ikkje same havet'' (2008)
*''I am so'' - piano (2008)
*''Play me'' - performer/perc. projections, tape (2008)
*''Awe'' - voice, flute, clarinet, sax, soprano, guitar, piano, percussion, violin, cello (2009)
*''snip-pets'' - guitar duo (2010)
*''Fill in the blanks'' - percussion trio (2011)
*''Vokse vilt'' - solo voice (alto), choir, accordion, organ, tuba, string quartet (2012)
*''Oh, Danny boy'' – (2012)
*''The Lesser Nighthawk'' - soprano, clarinet in Bb (2013/15)
*''less-sense - revised and arranged for 6 musicians'' - soprano, flute, clarinet in Bb, piano, violin, cello (2014)
*''All play'' - video, tape, flute, clarinet, piano, cello; revised version of "Oh, Danny boy" (2014)
*''Bird on bike'' piece for young audience, flute, alto sax (2014)
*''opp.hav'', 16 ind. voices (2014)
*''Choosing to sing'' - flute, clarinet, sax, piano, percussion, violin, cello (2015)
*'' (herd)Study'' - sinfonietta/15 musicians (2015)
*''My Favorite Thing 2'' - flute, clarinet, sax, soprano, guitar, percussion, piano, violin, cello (2015)
*''Flock of me'' for recorded flutes, w/for Yumi Murakami (2015–16)
*''SHO(r)TS'' (2015–16)
*''flock foam fume'', for Karin Hellqvist (violin) and 8 speakers (2016)
*"Madrigal", for soprano, guitar and flute (2018)
*"Diamond & dagger", for choir (2018)
*"still", for string orchestra (2019)
*"fivefingers", for pianotrio (2020)
References
External links
List of works supplied by the National Library of NorwaySmørdal's home page
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1978 births
21st-century classical composers
Norwegian contemporary classical composers
Norwegian male classical composers
Living people
21st-century Norwegian male musicians