Eivind Buene
Eivind Buene studied at the Norwegian Academy of Music from 1992 to 1998, and the following two years he was composer in residence with the Oslo Sinfonietta. Since 2000 he has been living and working in Oslo, and he is currently professor of composition at the Academy of music. Buene has collaborated with a wide array of international ensembles and orchestras, with commissions from among others Ensemble Intercontemporain, Donaueschinger Musiktage, Klangforum Wien, London Sinfonietta and Berliner Philharmoniker. He has an extensive discography, including Possible Cities/Essential Landscapes, that was awarded a Norwegian Grammy.
Apart from writing music for soloists, ensembles and orchestras, Buene also frequently engages in collaborations with improvising musicians, developing music in the cross-section between classical notation and improvisation. In addition to music, Buene has written critique and essays, and he made his literary debut with the novel Enmannsorkester in 2010. He has to date published four novels and two collections of essays, and is also exploring hybrid forms between music and text in
large-scale orchestral works such as Blue Mountain, for two actors and orchestra (2014) and A Posthuman Guide to the Orchestra (2018).