Rolf Gupta
Rolf Arvind Gupta (born 14 January 1967 in Uppsala) is a Norwegian contemporary composer and conductor.
Career
Gupta has studied with Jorma Panula at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki as well as with Ilya Musin and Herbert Blomstedt. Gupta also studied composition with Olav Anton Thommessen, Per Nørgård, Antonio Bibalo and Lasse Thoresen at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo.[1]
2003 to 2005 saw Gupta acting as the chief conductor of the
Over the course of his career, Gupta has worked with such soloists as Truls Mørk, Antje Weithaas, Henning Kraggerud, Christian Lindberg, Ida Händel and Leif Ove Andsnes.[3]
Rolf Gupta was the artistic director for the 2002 MAGMA Festival in Berlin and he has also held the same position for the International Church Music Festival in Kristiansand. He has also been active in the field of opera, and conducted Olli Kortekanga’s Joonan Kirja at the
Rolf Gupta is a professor at the University of Agder in Kristiansand.[5]
Production
Selected works
- All my instincts : Exposition for Orchestra (1989)
- Cadenza Improvisata / Monogram : For Double bass Solo (1989)
- Canzona per trio d'archi (1994)
- Chiaroscuro : For orkester : In Memorian John Lind... (1995)
- Concierto del Angel / Astor Piazzolla (1997)
- Corona : For Six Voices, Percussion and Double Basses (1989)
- Cross relations (1987)
- Haiku : An Intimate Trio based in Haiku Texts (1986/87)
- [email protected] (2001)
- Landscapes (1987)
- Ludus : For Peter (1996)
- Preludium for 3 Sopranos, Accordion & Piano (1989)
- Quator pour voix : Corona II (1990) [6]
Discography
- KORK, Gupta – Chiaroscuro (2001)
References
- ^ "Bio from SNL". snl.no. Archived from the original on 2017-03-15. Retrieved 2017-03-14.
- ^ "Bio from MIC Music Information Centre Norway". listento.no. Archived from the original on 2017-03-15. Retrieved 2017-03-14.
- ^ "Bio record label Grappa". grappa.no. Archived from the original on 2017-03-15. Retrieved 2017-03-14.
- ^ "Bio from the Norwegian Society of Composers". komponist.no. Archived from the original on 2017-11-13. Retrieved 2017-03-14.
- ^ "Bio from the University of Agder". uia.no. Archived from the original on 2017-03-15. Retrieved 2017-03-14.
- ^ "List of works supplied by the National Library of Norway". nb.no. Archived from the original on 2017-03-15. Retrieved 2017-10-17.