Nationality Icelandic German Name Steingrimur Rohloff Education Conservatoire de Paris | Occupation Composer Role Composer | |
Born 1971 (age 43–44) Reykjavik, Iceland | ||
Steingrímur Rohloff - Clarinet Concerto
Steingrimur Rohloff (born 1971) is an Icelandic German composer.
Rohloff studied composition with Krzysztof Meyer at the "Musikhochschule Koln". Supported by DAAD he went to the Conservatoire national superieur de Paris to study composition with Gerard Grisey and Marco Stroppa, electronic music with Laurent Cuniot and Louis Naon and orchestration with Marc-Andre Dalbavie. In 1999 he got selected for a course at the IRCAM in Paris. In 2001-2003 he studied electronic music with Hans-Ulrich Humpert.
Steingrimur Rohloff has received numerous prizes for his compositions. His orchestral works Sol, Gravitation and the Saxophone Concerto were first performed in Gothenburg, Saarbrucken and Oslo and received a lot of attention, when he was awarded the Bernd-Alois-Zimmermann-Prize of the City of Cologne in Germany in 2003. This prize was mainly given to him because of those large orchestral pieces, which the jury called "of an original fantasy... a virtuoso technique in the treatment of the orchestra...melodic invention...exciting colour-developments..."
His works were performed in more than 25 countries worldwide.