Per Dybro Sørensen - Turbulence

Workshop performance video

Turbulence appears in air and in water. It may appear in life as well.

There are lines here, often affected by the turbulence.

Composer: Per Dybro Sørensen

Composer photo
Photo of Per Dybro Sørensen
Biography

Studied Guitar at The Royal College of Music in Århus, Denmark, graduation year 1979 and at "Musikakademie der Stadt Basel" graduation year 1981. Has given first performances of solo works by Danish composers such as Axel Borup-Jørgensen, Vagn Holmboe, Lars Hegaard and Hans-Henrik Nordstrøm as well as first Danish performances of works by Peter Maxwell Davies, Hans-Werner Henze, André Jolivet, and Luciano Berio.

Concerts in Europe and North America.
Member of the Corona Guitar Quartet.

Per Dybro Sørensen has – since writing music for the theater in the 1980’s – tried to develop a personal way of writing music. These efforts resulted in the work ”Like a transient punctuation” in 2012. This work develops a technique of variation, based on the infinite row of Per Nørgård.

In 2012-14 he has studied composition with the Danish composer Peter Bruun. In 2016 his work Machinery reached the finale of the Timo Korhonen International Composition Competition. In 2019 his work Conversation in Spring won the 2nd price in “2nd Beethoven Composers Competition at the Buda Castle” in Budapest.

His works have been performed at the Open Days Festival, Denmark 2014 and 2016, “Young Sound Artists of Norhtern Jutland” 2015, The Suså Festival, Denmark 2016, at Sound Ways in Saint Petersburg in 2017, at Beethoven in Buda Festival in Budapest in 2019 and at Bloomsday in Salzburg in 2021.

He is a member of the Danish Composers Union.