Martin Stig Andersen is born in 1973 in Denmark.
In 1998, after private studies in composition, he
attended The Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus, Denmark,
where he passed a diploma in composition in 2003
studying under professor Karl Aage Rasmussen and
Bent Sørensen. As part of his degree, in
2001-2003 he studied electroacoustic composition
at City University in London where he is currently
a PHD student with Denis Smalley. His musical research
is funded by the Danish Research Agency, the Royal
Danish Academy of Music, and the Danish Ministry
of Culture.
Martin Stig Andersen has received commissions from
various ensembles and organizations and his music
has been performed on numerous international festivals
including The San Francisco Tape Music Festival,
Sonorities, The International Gaudeamus Music Week,
ICMC, SAN EXPO, Santa Fe Electro Acoustic Music
Festival, NWEAMO. In 2003 his piece “Essential
Tree Work” for bass clarinet and tape was
awarded two honourable mentions from the Prix Ton
Bruynèl and the Luigi Russolo competition
respectively.
“Essential Tree Work” has been performed
more than 70 times by outstanding performers including
Gareth Davis, Harry Sparnaay and Anna Klett. In
2001 the piece "Shadow Songs" for soprano
and tape was awarded in the Danish Arts Foundation’s
Competition. Martin Stig Andersen presented compositional
work at Berkeley University of California, Stanford
University, California, San Diego State University
and the Royal Danish Academy of Music..
From 1999 to 2001 Martin Stig Andersen was the chairman
of the Young Nordic Music Society, Denmark, and
was in 2001 leader of the 55th Young Nordic Music
festival held in Aarhus. He was the organizer of
master classes and student exchange between Aarhus
and Birmingham as part of the Discover Denmark festival
in Birmingham. From 1998 to 2002 he was a board
member of AUT (Aarhus Unge Tonekunstnere, concert
association). In this period AUT founded the electroacoustic
concert series Cinema for the Ears. He worked as
curator for “Cinema for the Ears” in
2003. Martin Stig Andersen contributed to the development
of timbreAnalysis (audio analysis software) in collaboration
with the University of Aarhus, Department of Computer
Science. He was in 2001 founder of the French/Danish
ATMEN Group of Electroacoustic Theatre Performance.
