'- It is inspiring to be nominated for TONO's composer award, says Ørjan Matre.
/ 27/01/2016 / codex
Ørjan Matre won the EDVARD Prize in 2012. Now he has been nominated for the TONO composer prize category at Spellemann.
– I am of course very happy to be nominated for the Tono Composer's Prize in connection with this year's Spelleman Award. In a genre-independent category, there are many records that are released during the course of a year, and many composers who could have been nominated. Naturally, the nominees represent a broad spectrum of what is produced in Norway today. Being one of those nominated is a great honor, and something that inspires further work.
– Tell us a little about the work you are nominated for!
– On the album that the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra with conductor Rolf Gupta has released are two of my works, a violin concerto with Peter Herresthal as violin soloist and a purely orchestral work, preSage. I have worked closely with several orchestras over the past ten years, and these works in many ways summarize some of the expression I have worked towards. Both have been performed several times in concert, but going into the studio and making a recording is a very different process, especially for a composer who is mostly used to sitting all alone in front of the sheet music. However, the orchestra, conductor and soloist made the job very easy for me, I could mostly sit and listen and smile, and they should have a large part of the credit for the nomination, he says.