Performers & composers

Eivind Buene

Born in Norway in 1973, Eivind Buene studied guitar with Erik Stenstadvold and music pedagogy at the Norwegian State Academy of Music. He then went on to study composition with Lasse Thoresen and Olav Anton Thommessen, and graduated from the Academy in 1998. He also studied privately with Asbjorn Schaathun and has participated at seminars with Brian Ferneyhough, Luca Francesconi, Jan W Mortenson and Walter Zimmerman.

Eivind Buene was Composer in Residence for Oslo Sinfonietta in 1999 and 2000, and has made programmes for Norwegian Radio, NRK P2. He is also co-editor and one of the founders of the Norwegian music periodcial, Parergon. He has worked as an arranger and conductor, and is part of a collaborative project with the architect group, Ocean, which aims to explore the crossing point between modern computer technology and artistic expression in temporal and spatial forms.

Eivind Buene has composed works for symphony orchestra and ensemble, chamber music, solo pieces and electro-acoustic music, and has received commissions from the Norwegian Cultural Council, Oslo Sinfonietta, the Cikada Ensemble, Kyberia, Nordic Voices and other ensembles. His music has been performed across Norway, including Nordic music festivals such as Ung Nordisk Musikk (Young Nordic Music), Oslo International Chamber Music Festival (with Oslo Sinfonietta), and Ultima. His work has also been performed in Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Germany, Mexico and the USA.

Eivind Buene uses the words of Dylan Thomas to describe his aims as a composer: "I make one image, though 'make' is not the word; I let, perhaps, an image be made emotionally in me and then apply to it what intellectual and critical forces I possess; let it breed another; let that image contradict the first, make, of the third image bred out of the other two, a fourth contradictory image, and let them all, within my imposed formal limits, conflict."