Anders Brødsgaard

Position
Part-time Teacher
Area
Theory
Department
Education
E-mail
anders.broedsgaard@dkdm.dk

Anders Brødsgaard (b. 1955) studied piano at the Carl Nielsen Academy of Music in Funen under Rosalind Bevan and, following studies in contemporary piano music with Elisabeth Klein, at the Royal Danish Academy of Music under Anker Blyme, where he graduated in music pedagogy in 1982. In addition, he studied composition under Karl Aage Rasmussen and Per Nørgård, among others, and music theory under Orla Vinther at the Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus, completing his studies in 1992 with a music teaching diploma and a diploma in theory and composition.

In 1978 and 1982 he participated as a pianist in the International Summer Courses in Darmstadt with Herbert Henck, and he has also taken part in composition courses with Sven David Sandström and Edison Denisov.

Website: www.andersbrodsgaard.dk

Teaching

Since 2003, Anders has been affiliated with RDAM as a part-time teacher, teaching theory, analysis and instrumentation.

He has also taught at the Carl Nielsen Academy of Music, the Royal Academy of Music, the Danish National School of Performing Arts, the Rhythmic Music Conservatory and the University of Copenhagen, and he has been a guest teacher at the composer workshops of the Esbjerg Ensemble in 2002 and 2004.

Artistic practice

Anders’ love of modernism shines through in most of his music, and he is also inspired by contemporary times and the world around him. Throughout his career, he has found inspiration in the serial music of the 1950s and the groundbreaking works of Stockhausen, as can be heard in his early orchestral work Variations from 1979, which was premiered by Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Oslo Philharmonic in 1983.

In the piano cycle In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni (1990-95), inter alia, he has worked with a more immediate and instrument-oriented style, in which fundamental musical phenomena such as tonality and pulse are important. In the 1990s Anders wrote the two-hour long operatic piece Rejse (Journey), which is based on overtone relationships. This set the course once again towards ‘chromatic’ sound and rhythm structures, and continuous attempts to expand the possibilities of the classical instrumentarium through electronic amplification and sonic manipulation of the instruments, combined with pure, electronically-generated loudspeaker sound.

Among the latest pieces in his list of works are the orchestral work Mandala (2015), the jazz-inspired Monk’s Mixtures (2009) and the song cycle Lukas O´Kech Evangeliet (premiered 2018).

Anders’ compositions have been performed in many countries, and he has composed instrumental music for a number of Danish ensembles, as well as electronica for the Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR), amongst others. In 2008-2009 Anders was co-organiser of the Music Harvest Festival in Odense.

 

Amongst others:

  • Danish Composers’ Society Scholarship
  • Three-year working scholarship of the Danish Arts Foundation, 1989-1991
  • Hakon Børresen Prize, 1997
  • Danish Arts Foundation award for the work Algol 8, 1998
  • Algol 8 was named among the 10 best works at the International Rostrum of Composers, Paris 1999
  • Carl Nielsen and Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen Honorary Scholarship, 2009

Solo

  • Three 12-tone pieces (1974)
  • Chyo (1984)
  • Dream Fragment (1989)
  • NU (1989)
  • In girum imus nocte et consumimur ignI
    - Joker (1990)
    - Attacca (1992)
    - Requiem (1992)
    - 7-9-13 (1992)
    - Bacchanal (1994)
    - Hymn (1994)
    - PyroMani (1994)
    - (also Piano Concerto and Straight)
  • Prelude-Labyrinth-Exit (1994/2002)
  • Soft Machine (1995)
  • De Fondo (1997)
  • Gobelin (2000)
  • Blues i tre etager (2002)
  • Kamæleon - etudevariationer (2018)

Duo

  • 2 Fragments (1978)
  • Blackbird (1983)
  • Tsurigane/Chyo (1984)
  • Dodekaprice (1988)
  • Dr. Ks Laboratorium (1988)
  • Traumfunken (1990)
  • Straight (1992)
  • Alien, with effect processor (1998)
  • Drabant (2002)
  • 63 Steps (2003)

Trio

  • Procession (1979-80)
  • A Prophecy (1990)
  • Pianotrio (1996)
  • Wien, 1912, Opus Es #2 (2002)
  • Gemini (2020)

Quartet

  • Network (1988)
  • ZeitWave (2001)
  • eeee (2002)
  • Six Sax Examples (2005)
  • Intonation (2007)
  • String Quartet (2013)
  • String Quartet No.2 (2020)

Quintet

  • ORAM (1988)
  • Arachne (2011)

Instruments with electronics

  • Ghostorchestra (1993)
  • Alien (1998)
  • ZeitWave (2001)
  • Ksana (2004)
  • Orakler I-V, with lyrics by Klaus Høeck (1998-2005)

Electronics

  • Katalog, 2ch DAT tape (1991)
  • Buddhas Øje, installation for Yamaha SY77 synthesizer (2000)
  • Fedtdigte med Requiem (Lyrics and vocals: Morten Søndergaard), CD (2005)
  • Algol Dancing, (Algol for Aliens #1), CD, (2006)
  • Algol Dreaming, (Algol for Aliens #2), CD, (2006)
  • Rollerball - for radio, CD, (2006)

Ensemble

  • Poltergeist, (1989):
    - Poltergeist
    - Pythagoras
    - Pace
  • Ghostorchestra (1993), withdrawn
  • Brainstorm I & II (1994)
  • The Mission, Opus Es #1 (2001-2)
  • Unicorn, Opus Es #3 (2002)
  • Maqãm, Opus Es #4 (2002)
  • 3 Fanfarer og en FanfareFantasi (2004)
  • Also sprach der Vogel (2010)
  • Secret Harmony (2012)
  • Lydbølger/Sound Waves (2013)
  • Fanfares for a Sinfonietta (2020)

Vocal works

  • Algol 8, with lyrics by Klaus Høeck (1996)
  • Orakler I-V, with lyrics by Klaus Høeck (1998-2005)
  • The Second Coming, with lyrics by W.B.Yeats (2002)
  • Op hane i din galen/Se skyerne de spejles (morning and evening song), with lyrics by Klaus Høeck (2004)
  • The Golden Net, with lyrics by William Blake (2006)
  • 10 Galgenlieder, with lyrics by Christian Morgenstern (2006)
  • Lukas O’Kech Evangeliet, with lyrics by Klaus Høeck (2012)
  • Galgenlieder, with lyrics by Christian Morgenstern (2015)
  • Shakespeare Arias, with lyrics by William Shakespeare (2016)
  • Her strømmer det - en kabaretscene, with lyrics by Ursula Andkjær Olsen (2016)

Sinfonietta

  • Procession II (1986)
  • Pianoconcerto (1994-95)
  • Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern (2015)
  • Scherzofragmente (2017)

Orchestra

  • Variations (1979/83)
  • Galaxy (1990-99)
  • Behind Bars (2008)
  • Monk’s Mixtures (2009)
  • Nataraja (2013)
  • Mandala (2014)

Opera

  • Rejse, operatorium, with lyrics by Klaus Høeck (1997-2000)

 

Pedagogical development (PUV)

  • Moodle i teoriundervisningen (Moodle in theory teaching) (2020/21)
  • Formidlingsaspektet i analyseundervisningen (The communicative aspect of analysis teaching) (2020/21)

Anders has been a guest teacher abroad on several occasions, including at the Academy of Music in Gdańsk, Poland, and at the University of Music and Theatre in Leipzig.

2016-2019: Member of the Scholarship Committee of the Danish Arts Foundation

2012-2016: Member of the Board of the Carl Nielsen and Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen Honorary Scholarship

2000-2010: Member of the Board of Dansk Musikpædagogisk Forening (Danish Music Teaching Association)

2008-2010: Member of the Music Committee of the Danish Arts Foundation

Anders has written several articles and reports, mainly for Dansk Musik Tidsskrift. (Available at the Seismograf website: www.seismograf.org)

CD releases

Anders Brødsgaard
Galaxy
Odense Symphony Orchestra, Christopher Austin
Dacapo 8.226551

Anders Brødsgaard
In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni
Rolf Hind, Esbjerg Ensemble, Christopher Austin
Dacapo 8.226514

Anders Brødsgaard
Dreamfragments
Den Danske Trio, Johannes Søe Hansen
CLASSCD 321

Anders Brødsgaard, Peter Bruun, Steingrimur Rohloff
Preludes to Disaster
Figura Ensemble, Seattle Chamber Players
Neos 11401

Brødsgaard, Nørgård, Fundal, Nielsen, Helweg
Sonatas & Scenes
John Ehde
CDK 1061

Anders Brødsgaard, Hans Hansen, Wayne Siegel, Jexper Holmen
Flutronics
Marianne Leth
ML0108

Brødsgaard, Møller, Lippe, Lorentzen, Adams
Mambo
Berit Juul Rasmussen
Carl Nielsen Academy of Music (pub.)

Brødsgaard, Hendze, Fundal, Graugaard, Werner, Becker
Ny music i musikskolen (New music in the music school)
Odense Music School Guitar Orchestra, Jesper Sivebæk
Odense Musikskoles Forlag (pub.)

Score publications at Edition Wilhelm Hansen and Edition-S

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