Michael Nyvang: biography

Michael Nyvang (Aarhus, Denmark, 1963)
• composer

He studied classical saxophone at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen and at Conservatoire National Superieure de Musique in Paris. From 1989 to 1997 he studied composition at the Royal Academy in Aarhus with Per Nørgård and Karl Åge Rasmussen while attending courses in computer science and computer music and acoustics at the Aarhus University and at DIEM. In 1995 he received a three-year grant in composition from the Danish State Art Foundation. He has composed solo works, chamber music, orchestral works and computer music. Nyvang’s initial interest as a composer was concentrated on spectral compositional techniques, in which the characteristics of certain sounds are used as the theoretical basis for constructing musical works.