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Composer Website: http://www.martinstauning.com/home/4585000361
Originally educated and worked as a dancer at The Royal Danish Ballet in Copenhagen, Martin holds a Postgraduate Advanced Diploma (Soloist) in Composition from The Royal Danish Academy of Music. Martin has counted among his teachers Hans Abrahamsen, Bent Sørensen and Niels Rosing-Schow.
Martin writes for any combination of instruments, with or without electronics, as well as working in sound performance and installation. Martin has written incidental music for plays and music for dance and theatre.
Martin is also an active performer and has performed works by John Cage, Alvin Lucier, Jeppe Ernst and himself.
Until October 2014, Martin served as the chairman of UNM Denmark, the Danish branch of the pan-Nordic annual festival for young sound artists, Young Nordic Music.
Martin is the recipient of the Axel Borup-Jørgensen Composer Prize 2015 and was awarded a Léonie Sonning Talent Prize in 2016. Martin received the 2017 Carl Prize - Composer of the Year, Small Ensemble for the work Îles en Mer d'Argent.
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