Lars Graugaard

Lars Graugaard (born Copenhagen, February 10, 1957) is a Danish composer, of contemporary classical music and a laptop performer of improvised music and experimental techno music.

After studying composition with Niels Viggo Bentzon and flute performance with Poul Birkelund among others as well as supplementary studies with Michel Debost at The Royal Danish Academy of Music 1977-1983, Graugaard graduated in 1983 with a MA in flute performance. In the early 80s he briefly sought compositional advice from leading Danish composers before pursuing self-guided studies in composition and other forms of musical creation. He received a PhD from Oxford Brookes University in 2006 with his dissertation Gesture And Emotion In Interactive Music - Artistic And Technological Challenges, under the supervision of Robert Rowe and Paul Dibley.

Since 1983 Graugaard has worked as a free-lance composer and flute performer, later laptop performer. The recipient of numerous commissions and scholarships, he has composed 4 operas and 14 works for large orchestra as well as a large number of works for solo instruments, chamber groups and voice. Since 2005 he performs realtime electronic music that he generates by means of his own computer code, either solo or in small settings with experienced improvisers.

In 1997-99 he was composer-in-residence with Odense Symphony Orchestra and in 1997-2004 he was professor of interactive music at the Danish National Academy of Music. He lectured 2003-08 at Aalborg University's Department of Media Technology and he was Visiting Scholar at Iceland Academy of the Arts's Music Department 2008-11. In 2010 he became Visiting Faculty Artist at New York University Department for Music and Performing Arts Professions, and 2013-2015 he was composer-in-residence with Grup Instrumental de València.

...
Wikipedia