Composers
Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen
© Jeppe Gudmundsen-Holmgreen
Born: 1932
Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen, born 1932, studied theory, music history and composition at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen. From 1968 until 1972 he was a teacher of composition at the Academy of Music in Århus. With a compositional starting point in Bartok/Stravinsky and after several year's work with serialism PG-H reached his more personal line in the mid-sixties with the chamber orchestra works FRERE JACQUES (1964) and RECAPITULATIONS (1965). Characteristic of his music since then has been: Radical reductions, repetitions, simple or grotesque figures in polyrhythmic patterns, often combined with a rash use of instrumental colour.
Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen has several times been one of the big names of festivals, e.g. Stockholm New Music 1993, Music Harvest in Odense on Funen 1993 and together with Per Nørgård the leading name on NORDLYD-festival in Trondheim October 95.
Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen received the Nordic Council Music Award in 1980 for the SYMPHONY-ANTIPHONY and was the recipient of the Edition Wilhelm Hansen Composer Prize in 1996.
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