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Knut Vaage, born 1961, lives in Bergen where he works as a composer. He graduated as a pianist and composer from the Grieg Academy in Bergen. He has received a professional certificate as a lecturer in composition from the Norwegian Academy of Music. Vaage has worked in different styles of music, though concentrating on improvised and contemporary music. Many of Vaage's projects have investigated the boundaries between improvisation and composed music.

Vaage production ranges from symphonic works and opera to solo pieces. His music is frequently performed at concerts and festivals in Norway and abroad. Vaage"s instrumental works include Transit, commissioned by the French Ministry of Culture and premiered by Ensemble Court-circuit; Movements for major sinfonietta, commissioned and premiered by the BIT20 Ensemble; Hidden Songs, commissioned and premiered by the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra; Chaconne, Gardens of Hokkaido and Tjat, premiered by the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra; Reflex, premiered by the Orkester Norden; Cyclops, premiered by the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra

Vaage has also written a number of vocal works and works for the stage. His first opera Someone is Going to Come, was based on Jon Fosse's play with the same name. It was premiered by Opera Vest at the Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival in 2000 and achieved national and international acclaim, released on CD (ACD5043). In 2010 Collegium Musicum premiered Song of Solomon. Ongoing projects includes a full scale opera developed with the librettist Torgeir Rebolledo Pedersen, commissioned by Den Norske Opera & Ballet. Rebolledo Pedersen also wrote the libretto for Veslefrikk, an opera in one act aimed for the whole family to be premiered September 2010 by Den Nye Opera.

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Sept 2010

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