Rolf Arvind Gupta (born 14 January 1967 in
Uppsala
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) is a Norwegian contemporary composer and conductor.
Career
Gupta has studied with Jorma Panula at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki as well as with Ilya Musin and Herbert Blomstedt. Gupta also studied composition with
Olav Anton Thommessen
Olav Anton Thommessen (born 16 May 1946) is a Norwegian contemporary composer who has been one of the foremost modernist composers in Norway since the 1970s. His main compositions include ''Et glassperlespill'' and ''Gjennom Prisme''. He was a pro ...
,
Per Nørgård
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,
Antonio Bibalo
Antonio Gino Bibalo (18 January 1922 – 20 June 2008) was an Italian-Norwegian pianist and composer of contemporary classical music, primarily operas.
Biography
Bibalo was born in Trieste and studied piano at the conservatory there. His path to ...
and
Lasse Thoresen
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Lasse Thoresen (born 18 October 1949) is a Norwegian composer whose works concentrate on a contemporary transformation of the folk-music traditions of many peoples, especially those of Scandinavia.
Biography
Thoresen was born in Oslo in ...
at the
Norwegian Academy of Music
The Norwegian Academy of Music (Norwegian: ''Norges musikkhøgskole'', NMH) is a university-level music conservatory located in Oslo, Norway, in the neighbourhood of Majorstuen, Frogner. It is the largest music academy in Norway and offers the co ...
in Oslo.
2003 to 2005 saw Gupta acting as the chief conductor of the
Norwegian Radio Orchestra
The Norwegian Radio Orchestra (Norwegian, ''Kringkastingsorkestret'', abbreviated as KORK) is a radio orchestra affiliated with the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (''Norsk rikskringkasting AS'', or NRK). Its principal base is the ''Store Studi ...
, and he led the Norwegian Baroque Orchestra from 2004 to 2006. As a guest conductor, he has worked with such orchestras as the
Oslo Philharmonic
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, which has performed his work ''Chiaroscuro'' while touring internationally. Other engagements include a concert version of Grieg’s Peer Gynt with the
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
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, the
Norwegian National Opera and Ballet
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and the choir of the Mariinsky Opera during Valery Gergiev's White Nights Festival in
Saint Petersburg
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, Radio France Présences Festival, Moscow Easter Festival, the
Lahti Symphony Orchestra The Lahti Symphony Orchestra (''Sinfonia Lahti'') is a Finnish orchestra, based in the city of Lahti. The orchestra is resident at the Sibelius Hall. The orchestra was founded in 1910, and placed under the control of the Lahti municipality in 1949 ...
,
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, the Stockholm Symphony Orchestra,
Staatskapelle Weimar
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, Orchestra della Toscana, Avanti! and Ensemble InterContemporain. From 2006 to 2013, Gupta served as the chief conductor and artistic director for the
Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra.
Over the course of his career, Gupta has worked with such soloists as
Truls Mørk
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Biography
Mørk was born in Bergen, Norway to a cellist father, John Fritjof Mørk, and a pianist mother, Turid Otterbech. His mother began teaching him the piano wh ...
,
Antje Weithaas
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Career
Born in Guben, Weithaas studied at the H ...
,
Henning Kraggerud
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Career
Kraggerud was born in Oslo. He studied with Camilla Wicks, Emanuel Hurwitz, and Stephan Barratt-Due, before embarking on a career that has brought solo appeara ...
,
Christian Lindberg
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Biography
Early life and career
Lindberg was born in Danderyd. As a youth, he learned to play the trumpet, and subsequently began to learn the trombone ...
, Ida Händel and
Leif Ove Andsnes
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.
Rolf Gupta was the artistic director for the 2002 MAGMA Festival in Berlin and he has also held the same position for the International Church Music Festival in Kristiansand. He has also been active in the field of opera, and conducted Olli Kortekanga’s ''Joonan Kirja'' at the
Finnish National Opera
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,
Rolf Wallin Rolf Wallin (born 7 September 1957) is a Norwegian composer, trumpeter and avant-garde performance artist.
Biography
Wallin was born in Oslo, where he studied with Finn Mortensen and Olav Anton Thommessen. He later studied at the University of ...
’s ''Manifest'' at the Holland House in Copenhagen and
Olav Anton Thommessen
Olav Anton Thommessen (born 16 May 1946) is a Norwegian contemporary composer who has been one of the foremost modernist composers in Norway since the 1970s. His main compositions include ''Et glassperlespill'' and ''Gjennom Prisme''. He was a pro ...
’s ''the Duchess Dies'' at
Det Norske Teatret
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. At the
Norwegian National Opera and Ballet
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, Gupta has conducted ''Die Fledermaus'' and he also conducted the premiere of
Gisle Kverndokk
Gisle Kverndokk (born 3 February 1967 in Trondheim, raised in Skien) is a Norwegian contemporary composer.
Education
In his teens, Kverndokk studied composition with Ragnar Søderlind. After having completed high school, Kverndokk enrolled at ...
’s ''Den Fjerde Nattevakt'' in 2005. At the opera in Frankfurt, Gupta has conducted ''La Traviata'' and ''Die Zauberflöte'' and he has also been active with the Reise Opera in Holland as well as the
Basel Opera.
Rolf Gupta is a professor at the
University of Agder
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in
Kristiansand
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.
Production
Selected works
* ''All my instincts : Exposition for Orchestra'' (1989)
* ''Cadenza Improvisata / Monogram : For Double bass Solo'' (1989)
* ''Canzona per trio d'archi'' (1994)
* ''Chiaroscuro : For orkester : In Memorian John Lind... '' (1995)
* ''Concierto del Angel / Astor Piazzolla'' (1997)
* ''Corona : For Six Voices, Percussion and Double Basses'' (1989)
* ''Cross relations'' (1987)
* ''Haiku : An Intimate Trio based in Haiku Texts'' (1986/87)
* ''kapellmeisterliebeundleben@almchen.no'' (2001)
* ''Landscapes'' (1987)
* ''Ludus : For Peter'' (1996)
* ''Preludium for 3 Sopranos, Accordion & Piano'' (1989)
* ''Quator pour voix : Corona II'' (1990)
Discography
*
KORK, Gupta – Chiaroscuro (2001)
References
External links
List of works supplied by the National Library of Norway
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1967 births
21st-century classical composers
Norwegian contemporary classical composers
Norwegian male classical composers
Living people
21st-century Norwegian male musicians