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Karsten Fundal

  orn1966

Nationality: Danish

Publisher Edition Wilhelm Hansen

Photo © Marianne Grøndahl

 Artistic creati on an d li ved l ife go together l ike Si amese twi ns for Karsten Funda l (b.

1966). If the one doesn’t function, the other becomes weakened and inactive. For 

Fundal this means being on top of things, and thus establishing proper relations with

the surrounding world just as much as cultivating his artistic career. It’s about

balance in l ife and in art, in the final analysis also about forming part of a meaningful

social context, about establishing a kind of humanity and being something – for 

others as well as oneself. So when you consider Fundal’s music you also have to

consider what exists alongside the art – all that in the end is the precondition for the

art to be manifested in the form of musical expression.

Karsten Fundal has studied composition with Hans Abrahamsen and Ib Nørholm,

Karl Aage Rasmussen and Per Nørgård. A meeting with Nigel Osborne and (especially) Morton Feldman in 1986 at

Dartington took on great importance for Fundal’s development as a composer, and in the years 1987-88 he studied

composition with Loui s Andriessen in Holland.

 Among the most i mportant of his o ther wo rks we find the violi n concerto "Floating Lines – Broken Mirrors" (19 95-1996), the

percussion concerto Ritornello al Contrario (1996-1997) and the ensemble work w ritten for the Cikada Ensemble,Circadian

Pulse (2002-2003). Then there are the four works in the Moebius series and of course the orchestral works Entropia (1997-

2001) for soloists, choir and large orchestra – written for the Danish National Symphony Orchestra/DR – and the orchestral

work Hush (2003-2004).

In recent years Karsten Fundal has had the pl easure of seeing a rapidly increasing interest in his music, which has led to a

large number of commissions for new works, and has gradually won him a place as one of the major composers of his

generation. Fundal’s unmistakable talent has also evoked a response in the film world where, after great success with the

music for the Dreyer film Mikaël  (2003), premiered live with the Copenhagen Philharmonic, he wrote the music for Nikolaj

Østergaard’s Robert-award-winning documentary Om Tro (Short Film About Faith) (Nordisk Film 2005).

Most recently Fundal has completed the work on the music for the epic film Flammen & Citronen ("Flame and Citron") directed

by Ole Christian Madsen (Nimbus Film 2008). It is an impressive and wide-ranging score for the most expensive movie ever 

produced in Denmark.

Karsten Fundal has been awarded the Wilhelm Hansen Composer’s Prize 1994, the Prize of the Danish Composers’ Society

1995, the Hvass Foundation’s Artist’s Grant 1995, the Queen Ingrid Memorial Grant 2005 and the Carl Nielsen Prize 2005. In

2005 he received the three-year grant of the Danish National Arts Foundation to develop a major music film project about

globalization. For the music for Peter Schønau Fog’s feature film Kunsten At Græde i Kor  (2007) ("The Art of Crying") Fundalwon a Robert for best score and has thus won a place as the most important composer in Danish film for many years.

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