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About

Aarhus Unge Tonekunstnere (AUT) is a non-profit organization and production platform for sound art and new composition music founded in 1966.
For many years the organization has been an important part of the music scene in Aarhus, focusing on a broad repertoire of both local and
international sounds with a special focus on experimental music, new classical music and cross-aesthetic projects. An important goal of the
platform is to produce events that further activate the role of the audience to create socially engaged, genre-flowing, memorable musical experiences.

AUT works to foster the emerging field of new compositional music and sound art, seeking to create a platform from which young artists can
work in a professional setting and simultaneously develop their artistic and production skills. AUT often collaborates with other cultural institutions
in Aarhus and Denmark, such as Ensemble Lydenskab, Aarhus Sinfonietta, Den Jyske Opera, SPOR Festival, SPOT Festival, ILT Festival,
Ambassaden and Art Music Denmark, as well as the composition departments at the local conservatory, Det Jyske Musikkonservatorium.

Association

AUT's bylaws can be found here

Minutes from the most recent general assembly can be found here

Information on becoming a member can be found here

Board

Matthew Grouse [Chairperson]

I am a composer, originally from Yorkshire (UK) but now living and working in Copenhagen (DK). I often work at the intersection of music
for instruments and voices, electronic sound, text, video and performance. My work is concerned with recontextualizing everyday sounds,
objects and automatic, repetitive social behaviour to reveal the latent musicalality in the banal.

Recent commissions have come from SPOR Festival; Riot Ensemble / Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival; Hebrides Ensemble;
The Cumnock Tryst; and Cryptic Glasgow. In 2023, Silberblau for guitar and electronics was nominated for both an Ivor Novello Award and a
Scottish Award for New Music. '10 seconds' for chamber ensemble and electronics won 'The Dorico Award' at SAFNM in 2018.

I am one of the artistic leaders of the composer-performer group Current Resonance, which regularly contributes to carefully curated intermedia
events. I am also chairmperson of Aarhus Unge Tonekunstnere and treasurer of Ung Nordisk Musik Danmark.

Anne Sophie Andersen

Anne Sophie Andersen is a composer, violinist and concert curator. Her music has a special focus on string instruments and the possibilities of
renewing and expanding the repertoire. She also pursues this interest as artistic director of the international New Music for Strings festivals and as a
member of the AUT board. She has received grants from KODA and the Danish Arts Foundation.

Anne Sophie Andersen has written commissioned works for violinist Patrick Yim (Notre Dame University), pianist Jocelyn Ho (UCLA) and
Friction Quartet (California), among others. Her music has been performed in Denmark, Sweden, Iceland, USA, Canada, Ecuador and Hong Kong.

Anne Sophie Andersen holds a doctorate from Stony Brook University, from which she received the Samuel Baron Prize, awarded every two years
to a particularly talented young musician. She has also studied at the New England Conservatory in Boston, the MalmĂś Academy of Music and the
Royal Academy of Music.

Dylan Richards

Dylan Richards is an American composer, curator, and performer creating works in the space between music and intermedia art. His practice engages
with the ellison of curation and composition, with a particular focus on composing events as integral experiences. Allusions to internet culture and
metamusicial references litter his work.

He is a founding member of the composer/performer ensemble Current Resonance and co-director of MINU_festival_for_expanded_music.

Niklas Brandenhoff

was born in the year 2000, in Kalundborg. He is currently studying a Master’s degree in classical composition at Det Jyske Musikkonservatorium,
where his teachers are Marcela Lucatelli, Juliana Hodkinson, and Niels Rønsholdt. Niklas is a member of the group “Efterskrift” together with
August Frey Lydersen Bjerregaard and Sebastian Brix. Some of his works have been played on SPOR festival 2022 in Aarhus, MINU festival 2022
in Copenhagen, and UNM festival 2023 in Oslo.

He works with concepts as well as the contexts of readymade/found materials. (For now) he includes scores, video, sound recording, bodily
performance, and spoken text in his work. He is interested in qualities of ‘less’ as well as social and material conceptions of “nothing”.

Sofus Preisel

I am a composer, pianist and performer. In my work, I try to reconcile the sensuous ambiguity of art with the unwavering unambiguity of activism.
My work consists of sound that uses and finds its aesthetic in creating change. In this endeavor, I often work conceptually - how sound is created is
equal to how it sounds.

I have collaborated with renowned Danish ensembles and soloists, including NEKO3, CRAS-Ensemble, Kirsten Voss, Sara Nigard Rosendal and
Nadja Marie Schmedes Enevoldsen. My latest commission is for the performance HYL, an outdoor musical theater piece focusing on witches, cultural
heritage and sorcery.

I am a trained classical pianist from the Royal Academy of Music and a graduate in Musicology from the University of Copenhagen. Today I study
classical composition at the Royal Academy of Music. I have received composition lessons from Lasse Laursen, Line Tjørnhøj and Mette Nielsen.


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  • Contact AUT at:
  • autdk1966(at)gmail.com
  • @autdk