Composer
Biography:
Magnus Lindberg was born in Helsinki in 1958. He took piano lessons before entering the Sibelius Academy, where Einojuhani Rautavaara and Paavo Heininen were among his composition teachers. The latter encouraged his students to look beyond the prevailing Finnish conservative and nationalist aesthetics and explore the works of the European avant-garde. This led to the founding of the Ears Open Society around 1980, which, in addition to Lindberg, also included Hämeeniemi, Kaipainen, Saariaho and Salonen, with the aim of raising awareness of current modernism. In 1981, Lindberg took a decisive step and traveled to Paris to study with Globokar and Grisey. During this time he also attended Donatoni's courses in Siena and established contacts with Ferneyhough, Lachenmann and Höller. His breakthrough as a composer came with two large-format works, Action situation signification (1982) and kraft (1983–85), which are inseparable from the founding of the experimental Toimii Ensemble by Lindberg and Salonen.
Lindberg was Composer in Residence with the New York Philharmonic from 2009 to 2012. the »concert opener« EXPO, the premiere of which marked the beginning of Alan Gilbert's tenure as chief conductor of the orchestra. From the 2014 / 15 season he was Composer in Residence with the London Philharmonic Orchestra for three years Violin Concerto No. 2 with Frank Peter Zimmermann for the premiere. The Orchestral Work TEMPUS FUGIT was commissioned by the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra for the centenary of Finnish independence in 2017. The setting of Edith Södergran's poem Triumph att finnas till… (Triumph to Exist) was premiered in 2018 by the London Philharmonic Orchestra & Choir under Vladimir Jurowski. The Ensemble intercontemporain raised in 2019 Shadow of the Future from baptism.
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