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Sospeso
presents works by Magnus Lindberg at the Sospeso
Xponential concert on Tuesday, November 11, 2003.
Magnus Lindberg
studied composition at the Sibelius Academy in his native Finland,
as well as privately in Paris with Gérard
Grisey and Vinko Globokar; he also attended courses of Franco
Donatoni and Brian Ferneyhough. With
Esa-Pekka Salonen, he founded
the Toimii ensemble in 1984.
Mr. Lindberg’s
music is oustanding in its incorporation of a wide variety of twentieth
century techniques—serialism, electronics, pastiche, spectralism,
neoclassicism—within a coherent oeuvre. Among Mr. Lindberg’s breakthrough
works is Action—Situation—Signification (1982), which drew
upon musique concrète. Kraft, written in 1985, a concerto
for the Toimii ensemble with orchestra, and Ur (1986) further
explore the synthesis of electronic sound and instrumental conventions.
In the nineties, Mr. Lindberg has gradually moved from electronic
sound to a reinterpretation of conventional harmony and form. In 1994,
a major orchestral work, Aura—in memorium
Witold Lutoslawski, was premiered in Tokyo to much acclaim.
Notable recent works include the Piano Concerto (1994);
Engine (1997), written for the London Sinfonietta; and Related
Rocks (1997), an
IRCAM commission.
Mr. Lindberg’s
many honors include the Prix Italia (1986), the UNESCO Rostrum (1986),
the Nordic Music Prize (1988), and the Royal Philharmonic Society
Prize (1992). His music is available on the Finlandia, Ondine, and
Adès labels.
Click here to see a page of one
of Lindberg's compositional sketches.
Click
here to read Sospeso's
interview with Magnus Lindberg.
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