Bjørn Morten Christophersen

About Bjørn Morten Christophersen

The Norwegian composer Bjørn Morten Christophersen (b. 1976) has written works on commission from the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra, Royal Norwegian Navy Band, the Norwegian National Opera Chorus, Oslo International Church Music Festival, Ålesund Chamber Music Festival, Schola Cantorum (Oslo), Ensemble 96, and the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK), among others.

He has also written nearly 200 arrangements, mostly for orchestra. In 2022 he was nominated for the Norwegian Grammy (Spellemannprisen) for his oratorio The Lapse of Time, based on Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species. In 2025 he received the Spellemannprisen for Composer of the Year, presented by TONO, for his requiem Krigsseilerrekviem (War Sailor Requiem). From 2024 he holds the Norwegian Government's Artist Grant for five years (Statens kunstnerstipend).

Christophersen is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Musicology, University of Oslo, and has been teaching composition, arranging, harmony, orchestration, and counterpoint there since 2003. In 2016 he completed his PhD on the Norwegian composer Johan Svendsen's sketches and music theory exercises.