In the Faculty:

Professor

Teaching activities:
    Composition (Undergraduate and Graduate)
    Electro-Acoustic Music
    Director of Studio FLAT

Committee Member: Curriculum Committee, Library Committee

Contact:
Room 132 Music 2, (204) 474-9721, sandred@cc.umanitoba.ca

Personal Website:   http://www.sandred.com

Professional Bio:

Örjan Sandred (b. 1964) moved to Canada from Stockholm, Sweden in 2005.  He studied Musicology at the Uppsala University and Composition at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, where he received a “Musikerexamen” (MFA) in 1990, and a “Diplom i Komposition” in 1997. During this period, he also went abroad and took private lessons in Copenhagen and London with Poul Ruders (from 1991-92). In 1994-95 he studied composition at McGill University (Master’s program).  In 1998 he attended the annual course in composition and musical computing at IRCAM in Paris.

Örjan has composed for various ensembles, including commissions from Theâtre du Chatelet (Paris), Svenska Rikskonseerter, the Swedish Arts Grants Committee, and others. His music has been performed and broadcast on radio and TV in several countries. Many of his pieces are the results of his search for new methods of composition. During 1999, he worked as a Composer on Research in the Musical Representation Team at IRCAM, where he implemented his ideas on methods for working with hierarchical of the international musical research group PRISMA (Pedagogia e Ricerca Internazionale sui Sistemi Musicali Assisiti).

As a teacher in composition and computer music, Sandred taught at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm from 1998-2005. He has been a guest lecturer at IRCAM in Paris, at Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique in Paris, at Universität  für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien, at the Bartók seminar in Szombathely (Hungary), and at Harvard University.