Nils Vigeland

Nils Vigeland ( born 1950 in Buffalo ) is an American composer, pianist and music teacher.

Life

Vigeland debuted in 1969 as a pianist with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Lukas Foss. He studied until 1972 at Foss at Harvard College composition, then at the State University of New York at Buffalo piano with Yvar Mikhashoff and composition with Morton Feldman.

He ran for eight years, the Bowery Ensemble with whom he premiered over thirty works by contemporary composers such as John Cage, Jo Kondo, Pauline Oliveros and Dane Rudhyar, at an annual concert series at the Cooper Union. With percussionist January Williams and the flutist Eberhard Blum, he played a Feldman's compositions, which he had dedicated to the ensemble.

With the orchestral work My Father's Song ( premiered by the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra ) Vigeland won the 1989 Rose Price. In 1992 he received a commission from the English National Opera for the chamber opera False Love True Love ( motifs from Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre ), which premiered at the Almeida Theatre in London.

Since 1984, Vigeland taught composition and music theory at the Manhattan School of Music. In 2010 he was Composer in Residence of the Past contemporay music festival where the world premiere of his work with Summer Harbor Circle Dance took place.

Swell

• Manhattan School of Music - Dr. Nils Vigeland
• Modern Art Foundation - Nils Vigeland: Resident composer

• American composer
• Composer of classical music ( 20th century)
• University teachers (Manhattan School of Music)
• Born in 1950
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