Örjan Sandred

Örjan Sandred (b. June 15, 1964) is a Swedish composer and is currently an Associate Professor in Composition at the Marcel A. Desautels Faculty of Music at the University of Manitoba in Canada.

Biography

Sandred studied composition at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, McGill University (Montreal) and at IRCAM (Paris). Among his teachers are Sven-David Sandström, Pär Lindgren, Magnus Lindberg, Daniel Börtz, Bill Brunson and Bruce Mather.

Sandred was teaching composition at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm for 1998–2005 and he has been a guest lecturer at IRCAM, Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique in Paris, at the Bartok Seminar in Szombathely in Hungary, at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, at McGill University in Montreal, at Harvard University, at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and other places. He currently lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

Composition

Many of Sandred’s compositions are the result of his search for new methods of composition. These methods use computerized rule-based systems (a sub-branch of artificial intelligence) to formalize the musical structure.^[1]

In 2009 the CD “Cracks and Corrosion”, featuring 5 of Sandred’s compositions, was released on the Navona Records label.

References

1. ^ Approaches to using rules as a composition method. In Contemporary Music Review 28: 2, 149-165.

External links

• Örjan Sandred's homepage
• Biography at the Swedish Music Information Centre
• Biography at the University of Manitoba
• List of works at the Swedish Music Information Centre

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Name	Sandred, Orjan
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