Latest releases
Four Tchaikovsky Sketches: No. 1
PARASIxTh: 1. Prelude
Thommessen: The Hermaphrodite
Veslemøy Synsk (Garborg/Thommessen/Grieg)
Thommessen: Bull's Eye / Please Accept My Ears / Cantabile
Thommessen: Jeg er flerspors
Thommessen: Edda-Da
Thommessen: Gratias Agimus / Through A Prism / Woven in Stems (Nordic Council Music Prize 1990)
A Glass Bead Game
About this artist
Norwegian contemporary composer, born on May 16, 1946.
He was a professor of composition at the Norwegian Academy of Music until retiring in 2014, and has also been an influential figure in music education and music organizations in Norway. Thommessen has played a significant role in aesthetic discourse in Norway and is known for his modernist and atonal stance.