Eivind Buene

About Eivind Buene

Eivind Buene studied at the Norwegian Academy of Music from 1992 to 1998, and the following two years he was composer in residence with the Oslo Sinfonietta. He is living and working in Oslo and is currently professor of composition at the Norwegian Academy of Music. Buene has collaborated with a wide array of international ensembles, orchestras and festivals, with commissions from among others Ensemble Intercontemporain, Donaueschinger Musiktage, Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Musikfabrik and Berliner Philharmoniker. He has an extensive discography, including Possible Cities/Essential Landscapes, that was awarded a Norwegian Grammy. 

 Apart from writing music for soloists, ensembles and orchestras, Buene has also engaged in collaborations with improvising musicians, in the cross-section between classical notation and improvisation. In the project Schubert Lounge he regularly performs his renderings of Schubert songs re imagined as singer/songwriter performances, with Buene as a singer with a Fender Rhodes and different ensembles. In addition to music, Buene has written critique and essays, and he made his literary debut with the novel Enmannsorkester in 2010. He has published five novels and two collections of essays, and is also exploring hybrid forms between music and text in large–scale orchestral works such as Blue Mountain, for two actors and orchestra (2014), A Posthuman Guide to the Orchestra (2018) and I dag og i morgen (2023).