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Biography[edit]
Martin Lohse began his education at the Musical Science Institute in Copenhagen (1990–92). In 1995 he was admitted to the The Royal Danish Academy of Music, Copenhagen, where he studied composition and music theory as a pupil of Hans Abrahamsen and Niels Rosing-Schow. In 2000 he started a postgraduate course in composition and in 2004 he had his debut from the Royal Academy of Music.
In 2003, he received the 3-year Grant from The Danish Arts Foundation.
Besides composing acoustic and electro acoustic music, he does abstract paintings – usually with a clash of disintegration and pure and clear colours.
Music[edit]
In my music, I try to encircle small musical moments and atmospheres, which can timeless progress and unfold. The collocation and collision of a “pure” and clear music with a disintegrated and multi-layered music is one of the main characteristic of my music. In the heart, the music often emanate a harmonic and melodic reminiscence of past experiences in glints or longer periods which combined with a floating sensation (accelerando, decelerando etc.) creates a music with the organic form as one of its main foundations.
—Martin Lohse: www.martinlohse.com[1]
Romantic and to some extend, barok music are key elements in the music of Martin Lohse. Smoke, Images balancantes, In liquid... and In remembrance... all have a reminiscence of the romantic style: Small motives and longer themes within a gliding tonality, mixed with a floating sensation of times, sometimes with long and continues accelerandoes or decelerandoes and at other times with tempoes slowly departing from each other. The barok style is clear in a piece like Koncert, but it's also a part of works like In remembrance... In liquid... and Entity.
The music has some polystilistisk elements, not in the form of big clashes of different styles, but more in the sense of polytonality including polytempoes, f. ex in the work In liquid... for accordeon and piano, where the accordeon in the 1. movement starts slowly together with the piano, but gradually makes a forceful accelerando toward a brilliant barok-figure in a direct collision with the piano, which keeps the slow steady music from the start.
New Simplicity is a essential part of his music, with a direct input from his teacher Hans Abrahamsen, but also evolved with the meting with Arvo Pärt and his music. It is used to concentrate the music, finding the essence in a motive, a harmonic progression or in a structural complex created by the composer. In works like Slow movement, Sorrow and 4. movement of In liquid... the minimalism is transformed or rather reduced to a nearly pure transcendental form.
Lohses works have been widely performed.
Selected performances:
- Numus Festival in Aarhus (2000 and 2001), Denmark
- Louisiana Museum of Modern Art near Copenhagen
- Danish radio
- Young Nordic Music Festival (UNM) in Oslo (1998) and Reykjavik (2002)
- Composers Biennale 2002, Copenhagen
- Magma, Nordic Music Days (2002)
- Warsaw Autumn (2002) (2004)