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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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