Short Biography
Svend Hvidtfelt Nielsen (1958-) studied composition with Ib Nørholm, Per Nørgård, Hans Abrahamsen and Karl Aage Rasmussen at the Royal Academies of Copenhagen and Aarhus. He has composed music in a large diversity of genres to ensembles such as The Rascher Sax 4-tet, Ensemble l'Art pour l'Art, the Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra, Madrids Radio Symphony Orhchestra, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and most of the leading Danish Ensembles and Orchestras.
Twice a First Prize Winner and receiver of a number of Grants.Lately his Concerto for Bang Di and Symphony Orchestra "Of fire and Earth" won second prize in Shanghai International Spring Music Festival 2008.
Among major works are Symphony No 1 "A Sense of Fall", His oboe-concerto "Leaves in Winter", the concert for saxophone and sinfonietta: "Winter has Come", and his operas "The Present of Eden" and "The Little Mermaid".Besides being a composer SHN works as a church and concert organist and as associate professor in Music Theory at the University of Copenhagen, with a large number of theoretical writings (mainly in Danish) including an article on Per Nørgård in the latest version of MGG.
