Steingrimur Rohloff

Steingrímur Rohloff (born 1971) is an Icelandic-German composer.[1][2][3]

Steingrímur Rohloff
Born1971 (age 51–52)
Reykjavík, Iceland
NationalityIcelandic German
OccupationComposer

Early life

Rohloff was born in Reykjavik, Iceland in 1971,[4][5][6] to an Icelandic mother and a German father.[7] Rohloff studied composition with Krzysztof Meyer at the "Musikhochschule Köln". Supported by DAAD he went to the Conservatoire national superieur de Paris to study composition with Gérard Grisey and Marco Stroppa, electronic music with Laurent Cuniot and Louis Naon and orchestration with Marc-André Dalbavie. In 1999 he got selected for a course at the IRCAM in Paris. In 2001-2003 he studied electronic music with Hans-Ulrich Humpert.

Career

Steingrimur Rohloff has received numerous prizes for his compositions. His orchestral works Sol, Gravitation and the Saxophone Concerto were first performed in Gothenburg, Saarbrücken and Oslo and received a lot of attention, when he was awarded the Bernd-Alois-Zimmermann-Prize of the City of Cologne in Germany in 2003. This prize was mainly given to him because of those large orchestral pieces, which the jury called "of an original fantasy... a virtuoso technique in the treatment of the orchestra...melodic invention...exciting colour-developments..."

His works have been performed in more than 25 countries worldwide.[8][9][10]

References
  1. Háskólabókasafn, Landsbókasafn Íslands-. "Tímarit.is". timarit.is (in Icelandic). Retrieved 2021-08-24.
  2. Háskólabókasafn, Landsbókasafn Íslands-. "Tímarit.is". timarit.is (in Icelandic). Retrieved 2021-08-24.
  3. "Steingrímur og Anna fulltrúar Íslands". www.mbl.is (in Icelandic). Retrieved 2021-08-24.
  4. Musiktexte (in German). Verlag Musiktexte. 2006. ISBN 978-3-7651-0328-5. Retrieved 16 August 2021.
  5. "Steingrimur Rohloff | Edition·S". Edition·S music¬sound¬art. Retrieved 2021-08-24.
  6. "Steingrímur Rohloff". Onassis Foundation. Retrieved 2021-08-24.
  7. Amzoll, Stefan (17 October 2015). "Der Komponist Steingrimur Rohloff - Still not / Not Yet". Deutschlandfunk (in German). Deutschlandradio. Retrieved 16 August 2021.
  8. Pioli, Katherine. "Now-ID: Nowhere". Salt Lake City Weekly. Retrieved 2021-08-24.
  9. "Revisited Forum neuer Musik 2013 - Kagels "Exotica" politisch verstanden". Deutschlandfunk (in German). Retrieved 2021-08-24.
  10. "Hermes Luaces gana el XXVIII premio Reina Sofía de Composición". abc (in Spanish). 2011-10-07. Retrieved 2021-08-24.

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