PRESS
Video made by Ultima on winning the Arne Nordheim Composer Award 2026:
Press release on receiving the Arne Nordheim Composer Award 2026:
https://ultima.no/en/arne-nordheim-composer-prize-2026-awarded-to-jonas-lie-skaarud
Reviews of “The moon has set, dogs are sleeping”:
From Robert Barry in Seismograf.dk:
“Jonas Lie Skaarud’s The Moon has Set, Dogs are Sleeping is a deeply odd piece of music, riffing on fragments torn from the oeuvre of Frédéric Chopin like pages from a dream diary […] The orchestration is lush but erratic, amidst which themes lurch into view with the force of a bottle to the face, only to crumble to bits like theatrical sugar glass, the soloists tootling out melodies in the very attic of their range: the bass all harmonics, the sax a flutish whistle. I’m not sure the piece quite hangs together – but then perhaps it’s not really supposed to. It is at least quite a feat to make an orchestra this tight and this rich sound like a child’s recorder consort.”
From Peter Margasak in The Wire Magazine:
“This concert’s highlight is the premiere of The Moon Has Set, Dogs Are Sleeping, a dazzling work by Jonas Lie Skaarud filled with references to Frédéric Chopin and Polish folk songs set within a rickety architecture of wobbly, unstable reductions…”
About the piece “The moon has set, dogs are sleeping”. Interview for NyMusikk (in Norwegian):
https://nymusikk.no/nyheter/river-chopins-overdadighet-i-filler
Video about I Had Wanted a Quiet Testament (by Jørgen Hålien):
På jakt etter det uoppløselige episke element i norsk samtidsmusikk i perioden 1945–2023 – essay (in Norwegian) on scenekunst.no, by Martin Rane Bauck about Norwegian music 1945–2023, including reflections on my piece Com tudo quanto vi, se passa, passo. Nem distingue a memória. Do que vi do que fui.
Gjør samtidskomponisten mer synlig: Interview (in Norwegian) from The Norwegian Academy of Music about being a young composer in Norway.
Video made by TONO on winning the Edvard Award (Norwegian):