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Carsten Bo Eriksen (b. October 2, 1973 in Copenhagen, Denmark) is a danish 21st century composer and visual artist. He has composed contemporary, rock, jazz and film music. [1]

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[edit] Biography

Carsten Bo Eriksen studied composition at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Mass. (USA) (1993) and later at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen (1997-2003) as a pupil of Ib Nørholm and Hans Abrahamsen. In 2000 he studied balinese gamelan music in Ubud, Bali.
Established the composer-ensemble Nordlys in 1997 and the rockband Melonheads in 2002. In 2004, he received the 3-year Grant from The Danish Arts Foundation.

[edit] Music

Carsten Bo Eriksen works in the field of multimedia, with a syntese of contemporary classical musik, minimalism and rock music, often integraded with the visual media, art movie etc. [2]

Selected performances:

  • Tivoli Concert Hall, Copenhagen (2000)
  • Numus Festival in Aarhus (2000 and 2001), Denmark
  • Danish radio
  • Composers Biennale 2002, Copenhagen
  • Young Nordic Music Festival (UNM) in Oslo (1998) and Reykjavik (2002)
  • Magma, Nordic Music Days (2002)

[edit] Works

Selected works [3]

[edit] Orchestral works

  • Blue Spiritual Mysticism (1998/99) (rev.2000)
  • Known lands of the moon (2002)

[edit] Chamber works

  • In The Picture (1999)
  • Azulejos og the half moon (2000)
  • Mandala (2001)
  • Series of Escape (2002)
  • Concert (2001)
  • In Between (2002) (art movie by Jesper Fabricius)
  • Grand (2003)

[edit] Rock albums

  • Skin, Melonheads (2002)

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Naxos.com. Biografi; Eriksen, Carsten Bo
  2. ^ Official homepage; Carsten Bo Eriksen
  3. ^ Pryn, Christine. "Hvis der er noget, jeg ikke kan, så gør jeg det bare alligevel" Dansk Musik Tidsskrift; 2003-2004 - 02, page 52-55 (in danish)

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