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Simon Steen-Andersen was born in Denmark in 1976. From 1998 to 2006, he studied composition with Karl-Aage Rasmussen, Mathias Spahlinger, Gabriel Valverde, and Bent Sørensen in Aarhus, Freiburg, Buenos Aires, and Copenhagen.
Since 2008, he has taught composition at the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus, Denmark, where he became associate professor in 2018. In 2013-14, he taught at the Oslo Music Academy, and in 2014 and 2016 at the Darmstadt Summer Courses. In 2017, he was a guest professor at the Berlin University of the Arts (UKB). He currently lives and works in Berlin as a composer, performer, and creator of sound installations. In 2016, he became a member of the German Academy of the Arts. His catalogue includes instrumental works, electronic music, and multi-media and performance pieces. He has also been teaching composition and musical theatre at the Bern University of the Arts (Switzerland) since 2018.
Since the late 2000s, his work has become more focused on the physical and choreographic aspects of instrumental performance. His scores regularly call for amplification, along with the use of samplers, video, household items, and homemade instruments.
He has been commissioned and performed by ensembles and orchestras including Ensemble Recherche, Neue Vokalsolisten, SWR Orchestra, Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra, Ensemble Ascolta, JACK Quartet, Ensemble Modern, Oslo Sinfonietta, 2e2m, ICTUS, Ensemble intercontemporain, and Klangforum Wien, and by festivals such as Donaueschinger Musiktage, Ultraschall, Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik, and ECLAT.
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