Carsten Bo Eriksen (a.k.a. mbd73) is a prize winning and award nominated composer. He traverse the terrain between sound, space, image and form and insists on working freely over genres, as a true renaissance artist. Soundart, installations, videoart, paintings and compositions go hand in hand. He's educated at the Royal Academy of Music as a composer (1997-2003), pupil of Professor Ib Nørholm, Ivar Frounberg and Hans Abrahamsen. He had his debut from the extended studies program in composition in 2003. Furthermore he has studied at Berklee College of Music, Mass, USA. And has studied the balinese gamelan music in Ubud, Bali, Indonesia, with the musician Pak Tama. In 2004 he was granted by the Danish Arts Foundation with a 3 year working grant.
Since 1991 he has composed, produced and established ensembles, among others the critical acclaimed ensemble Nordlys and art rockband Melonheads. He has established and been active in the realisation of music and media festivals like the World Music Days (1996) and ARTRA (2000).And he was a boardmember of the concert society for contemporary music Musica Nova (1997-2000). He's been appointed member of KODA's collective tape funds assets (2003/2004). He's been appointed jury member of ISCM (Danish section)(2000). In 2002 he was nominated for a Danish Music Award (grammy) for best chamber music release with his ensemble Nordlys on the record label DaCapo Records. In 2001 he was the 1st prize winner of the Danish Art Foundations electronica competition. In 2005 he won the 2nd prize for best journalism on the internet INSOMNIA, creating the sound. He's also committed to work with a broad scope of collaborators, as with multiscoped artist and singer Martin Hall, visual artist Jesper Fabricius, the symphony orchestra Copenhagen Philharmonics and Athelas Sinfonietta. He's been exhibited and performed on the most prestigious spaces in Danmark as the Museum of Modern Art Lousiana, Danish State Arts Museum, The Royal Library "black Diamond concerthall", Tivoli Concerthall, VEGA, Otto Braun Saal in Berlin, MAGMA festival in Berlin. He has also been performed live and been aired on the Danish National Radio, and on other radiostations around Europe. He lives and work in Spain and Denmark. (wikipedia)
July 2008 - new piece for cello and electronics for swedish cellist Tobias Wallin.
September2008 - MBD73 concert in Literaturhaus 17th of September.
September 2008 - Collaboration in a live concert on the 17/9 with me on piano, el-guitars, video and electronics, and cellist Tobias Wallin, mezzosopran Maria Hanke in literaturhaus on the EARUNIT 0.9 beta concert.
Oktober 2008 - 5 new pieces (suite) a commission for Copenhagen Art Ensemble , 9 musicians with electronics and new videos. Concert in December on the 29th and 30th in Denmark and Sweden.
November 2008 - a new piece for Duo Mogensen Magnussen - Bjarke Mogensen (accordion) and David Magnussen (piano).
December 2008 - New piece for the spanish duo Faktor Bossar - Markus Breuss, trompet and Tsukiko Amarara, piano, and electronics.
December 2008 - MBD73 in Concert in Literaturhaus.
2009 concerts - Collaboration with the danish/polish electronic composer and sound artist Konrad Korebiewski on a concert in Denmark (check news for concert info on www.mbd73.com and www.korebiewski.com)
2009 - Working with Gothenburg Combo, and many others...more soon...
Career
Work:
Establishing the Ensemble Nordlys
Artistic Director 1997-2004
Boardmember MUSICA NOVA 1999-2001
ARTRA - festival for media art, electronic music 2002
Signaler in the Royal Opera and Ballet 2001-2002
Establishing the composer society, record label, exhibition producer and concert series EARUNIT 2008
Competitions and Prizes:
nominated for a Danish Music Award 2002 for best chamber music release on DaCapo Records with Nordlys.
1st prize winner of the Electronica competition "go to the extremes" in 2002 held by the Danish Arts Foundation.
Grantet with a 3 year working grant by the Danish Arts Foundation in 2004-2007
Reviews:
...Carsten Bo Eriksen is the leading figure in a bread of composer from the young generation, who compose a music, that would not have been possible within the new contempoary music scene just 10 years ago...it's simply to beautiful and friendly (year 2000 - newspaper: information - Anders Beyer)
...Carsten Bo Eriksen is a very karismatic frontfigure of his band and beyond...
( year 2003 - Politiken - Jan Jacoby)
...Carsten Bo Eriksen composes a ear catching minimal music, and the underlying layers shows a complex and refined sense for details... he's lyrical and poetic, and with his music lies a big future ahead for him... (2004 - Danish Arts Foundation - Svend Hvidtfelt Nielsen)
...your music is like Antoni Gaudi architecture, I'm very impressed... (said by a listener from the audience at the perfomance of my orchestral piece Blue with the Tivoli Symphony Orchestra, in 2002 in the Tivolis Concerthall).
Education
Degree Courses:
Berklee College of Music, Boston USA 1995
Royal Academy of Music, Copenhagen 1997-2001 (composition: prof. Ib Nørholm, Electro-Acoustic music Ivar Frounberg)
Royal Academy of Music, Copenhagen advanced studies 2001-2003 (composition: Hans Abrahamsen)
Masterclasses:
with Bent Sørensen, Per Nørgård, Iannis Xenakis, Magnus Lindberg, Karheinz Essl, Kaaria Saariahoo.
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