Bogimouritsen

Me

I am a faroese man living in Copenhagen, Denmark. I was born in Denmark but keep close connection with my faroese heritage.

Mpiri

Mpiri is a choir I founded together with my faroese friends Marjun Hoydal and Bogi Nielsen. They found that a faroese student choir was needed, in Copenhagen, and asked if I would be interested in starting a new faroese choir in Denmark. Thus Mpiri was founded in 1998 with me as the conductor for the first 2,5 years. At that point the choir had outgrown my capabilities as a conductor and since then I have been a singer in Mpiri.

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Tróndur Bogason in Copenhagen, 2007

Tróndur Bogason (born 1976; is a faroese classical composer with a talent spanning many other genres of music.

Tróndur grew up on the Faroe Islands in the 80's. Second half of the 20'th century in the faroes, had a vibrant music scene with music being present in many walks of life. In this environment Tróndur started playing rythmic music, forming several rock bands drawing on his formal piano lessons from childhood. in his early teens. In his mid teens Tróndur started taking lessons in musical theory and composition from the faroese composer Sunleif Rasmussen.

Musical development

Tróndur moved to Copenhagen and started studying at the Royal Danish Academy of Music where he studied under Ib Nørholm, Hans Abrahamsen and Bent Sørensen. During a stay at the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague in 2003, Tróndur sturied electro accustics under Louis Andriessen and Martijn Padding.

Tróndur had his debut soloist concert in april 2008. The concert was held at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Copenhagen. The concert "BABEL - Sound installation in two rooms with a connecting passage" with the ensemble Aldubáran was a concert in several movements in the different rooms and the spectators were asked to move around in the sound creating their own experience.

Musical oeuvre

Tróndur has composed a large number of works. Amongst many others are "Aliens" (trombone, piano and pauke), "Kugellampen" (piano and electro accustics), "Exchanges" (piano and percussion), "Crash" (cymbal and orchestre) and the multimedia work "Investigations of a dog" (trombone, electro accustics, video, dancing and light) inspired by a short story by Kafka.

The music of Tróndur has been played in all the Scandinavian countries as well as in Germany, France, Holland and England. Amongst performing artists are Aldubáran (fo), Athelas Sinfonietta (dk), Copenhagen Philharmonic (dk), Wärme Quartett (dk), Rilke Ensemble (se), MiNensemblet (no), Caupt (is) and Daniel Kientzky (fr)

Selected works

Works for voices and orchestra

• The Big Big Choir and Band thing for chorus and orchestra (2003)

Works for voices and ensemble (or piano)

• The little thing for very small choir and strings for soprano, four violas and four celli (2004/2005)

Works for chorus (and organ)

• Cantata for voices (2003)

Orchestral works

• Aliens for superstring orchestra (2000)

Works for solo instruments and orchestra

• That thang ya know for violin, string orchestra and vibraphone (2007)

Instrumental works

• How to dance for organ (/1999)

Selected discography

• My First Little Record (ECM New Series, CD/LP 1991)

Awards

• 1996 — American Academy of Arts and Letters Department of Music

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• 1998 — Honorary Doctor of Arts, University of Tartu
• 2003 — Honorary Doctor of Music, University of Durham
• 2008 — Léonie Sonning Music Prize
• 2010 — Honorary Doctor of Music, University of St Andrews

Sources

• Hillier, Paul. (1997). Arvo Pärt. Oxford : Oxford University Press. 10-ISBN 0-198-16616-8; 13-ISBN 978-0-198-16616-0 (paper)

External links

• Presentation of Tróndur as nominee to Nordic Council Music Prize. Danish text
• Tróndur Bogason page at the faroese composers society

Category:1976 births Category:20th-century classical composers Category:21st-century classical composers Category:Faroese composers Category:Living people