Anders Førisdal, Norway
Anders Førisdal (1977) plays a wide range of guitar instruments. He studied at The Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo with Professor Sven Lundestad and Professor Erik Stenstadvold, and privately with Magnus Andersson and Professor Ivar Frounberg (analysis), and takes special interest in post-war avant-garde music. He did his MA specializing on the music of Aldo Clementi, and has written articles on Clementi, Brian Ferneyhough and Roger Redgate for Norwegian journals Parergon and ballade.no. Førisdal has played solo recitals at the big festivals in Norway (Ultima, Music Factory, Borealis), and in Sweden, Denmark, Great Britain, France and Spain, and premiered pieces for 6-string, 10-string and quartertone guitars by Roger Redgate, Sven Lyder Kahrs, Matthew Shlomowitz, Michael Finnissy, Alex Hills, Øyvind Torvund, Eivind Buene and others. As guitarist of ensemble asamisimasa he has worked with and/or premiered works by composers like Helmut Lachenmann, Michael Finnissy, James Saunders, Aldo Clementi, Chris Dench and Matthew Shlomowitz in addition to Norwegian composers like Sven Lyder Kahrs, Øyvind Torvund and Trond Reinholdtsen, and played at festivals like Cutting Edge (London), Huddersfield, GAS (Gothenburg), Roaring Hooves (Mongolia), and at several Norwegian festivals (Ultima, Borealis etc.), in addition to concerts in Germany and the Ukraine. Førisdal also performs regularly with Norwegian orchestras and ensembles. Forthcoming projects include concerts in Norway and abroad, a collaboration with Christina Kubisch on an installation in Oslo, and premieres of new works by Brian Ferneyhough, Lars Petter Hagen and Wieland Hoban, and a 10-string concerto by Chris Dench. |