Simon Steen-Andersen

Simon Steen-Andersen (born 1976) is a Danish composer, performer, director and media artist. Biography Steen-Andersen studied composition with Karl Aage Rasmussen, Mathias Spahlinger, Gabriel Valverde, and Bent Sørensen in Aarhus, Freiburg, Buenos Aires and Copenhagen between 1998 and 2006. Since 2008 he has taught composition at The Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus, and since 2018 he has held been a professor in the Composition and Music Theatre department at University of the Arts Bern. In 2016 he became a member of the German Academy of the Arts, and in 2018 he was appointed as a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. He currently lives in Berlin. Well known for his original and uncompromising compositions, which often exist in a grey area between artforms, he has achieved international recognition. His works have been performed and broadcast all over the world and he has received commissions from, among others, Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Recherche, Ensemble Musikfabrik, Percussion de Strasbourg, Jack Quartet, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, SWR Symphonieorchester, Staatsoper Berlin, Opéra national du Rhin and Munich Biennale. His output ra