Øyvind Mæland (born 1985) is a Norwegian composer.

Career

Øyvind Mæland studied the piano at the

Barratt Due Institute of Music The Barratt Due Institute of Music in Oslo, Norway, is a music education institute founded in 1927 by pianist Mary Barratt Due and violinist Henrik Adam Due. It is situated in Fagerborg in Oslo and is a private foundation which receives governme ...

with Jiri Hlinka, before studying composition 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 ...

with Olav Anton Thommessen, Ivar Frounberg and Henrik Hellstenius. He has also participated in several master classes, with lessons from composers such as Aperghis, Furrer, Billone, Ferneyhough, M. Stroppa and Czernowin. Mæland's compositional output is primarily centered on chamber and ensemble works, and he has collaborated with such performers and ensembles as

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, Marco Fusi, Hans-Kristian Kjos Sørensen, Stine Motland, Pinquins, Oslo String Quartet, Kairos Quartet, Aksiom,

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with Pierre-André Valade, Telemark Chamber Orchestra, Bodø Sinfonietta, Sjøforsvarets musikkorps, and the Oslo Sinfonietta with

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. His music has seen a number of performances at festivals such as

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, Borealis and Oslo International Chamber Music Festival. In 2013 Mæland completed his two hour long opera ''Ad undas – Solaris Korrigert'' (for full orchestra, 6 soloists, and a nine-voiced choir), which opened at the Norwegian Opera House in October the same year. He worked closely with the poet

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, and the performance artist Lisa C. Baudoin Lie was director. In 2015 Mæland released eight works variously on labels

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, Fabra and Geiger, with Stine Motland and Sanae Yoshida, Marco Fusi, Oslo String Quartet, Aksiom and Telemark Chamber Orchestra. Øyvind Mæland's work is listed in the

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Selected works

*''Aksiom'' (2017, self-titled album) *''Procession and drought'' for percussion trio. (2009/2014) *''SIDDY Stavgersand'' from "Sci-fi-Lieder from the North Sea!" (2011) *''Glimpse – vanished'' for piano solo (2012) *''String quartet in 2 movements'' (2009/10) (1) *''String quartet in 2 movements'' (2009/10) (2) *''Through surfaces'' duo for violin and piano, (Sci-fi-Lieder album). (2008)

References

External links

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