1. biografia

[amministratore_1]

Kent OLOFSSON
via
SE-245 63 Hjärup, Sweden
Tf / cell:
mail: kent.olofsson@mhm.lu.se
http://www.kentolofsson.com/
luogo e data di nascita: Karlskrona (Sweden), 1962


He is mainly associated with chamber music, often written for instruments in combination with electronics - meticulous compositions that evolve out of a close collaboration with particular musicians and ensembles. Himself a guitarist -he began his musical career in the symphonic rock group Opus Est in the late 1970s and early 1980s before studying composition in Malmö between 1984 and 1991 - the guitar has taken on a central role in many ofhis works.
Otherwise of note amongst his series of works centring on certain aspects of sound and technology are the provocative pieces for solo instrument. All works in the series are titled "Treccia" (lattice-work), which betrays the aesthetic and the compositional methods he probes here. In fact Olofsson has written music in most genres - orchestral, solo concerto, vocal, electroacoustic, rock (he writes for the art rock band Dame Wiggens, with which he is also the guitarist) - and has composed music drama works, music for art exhibitions, and music for dance performances with choreographer Efva Lilja's dance company - notably "The Illuminated Dream Aflame" from 2001, a mammoth production at the Guggenheim museum in Bilbao, Spain, which was watched by over 7,000 visitors.
With titles and themes that allude to the conceptual world of antiquity, and with influences from Oriental music and the technical and tonal universe of the renaissance, Olofssontraverses wide expanses. The relative technical complexity is often parried with a surprising immediacy born of hisconfident ear for acoustic texture and for the purely human experience of tonal transmutation. This "psychoacoustic" sensitivity lends his music, without compromise, the ability to get intimately close to the listener.
Kent Olofsson also works as a teacher at the Malmö Academy of Music.