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).