Örjan Sandred
Örjan Sandred is a Sweden-born composer and professor at the University of Manitoba’s Desautels Faculty of Music, where he founded Studio FLAT, an experimental research studio for electro-acoustic music and computer-assisted composition. He has composed a series of compositions with live electronics, including solo parts for guitar, pipe organ, oboe, saxophone, piano, percussion, violin, cello and voice.
Sandred’s compositions have been commissioned by ensembles around the world, including (in Canada) the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra; (in Germany/France) the Camilla Hoitenga and Heloïse Dautry duo, Ensemble Ader; and (in Sweden) organist Hans-Ola Ericsson, the Peärls Before Swïne Experience, Das Orchestra and the Swedish Radio Orchestra.
Exploring the impact of technology in the arts Örjan Sandred has led seminars at international institutions including Harvard University, the University of California at Berkeley and Davis, the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique in Paris, the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, the Bartok Seminar in Szombathely (Hungary), Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien, the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, McGill University in Montreal, the Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research at the University of Plymouth, at the Iceland Academy of the Arts in Reykjavik and other places. Sandred’s music is available on the CDs “Sonic Trails” (2020) and “Cracks and Corrosion” (2009).