Simon Steen-Andersen

Born in 1976 in Denmark. Simon Steen-Andersen is a Berlin-based composer and stage director working with a transdisciplinary approach to musical performance and theater, resulting in works situated between music, performance, theatre, choreography and film. Steen-Andersen received numerous prizes, including the Reumert Award (2024), the Carl Prize (2024, 2020, 2015), the SWR Orchestra Prize (2019, 2014), the Mauricio Kagel Music Prize and the Siemens Composers’ Prize (2017) and the Nordic Council Music Prize (2014). Between 1998 and 2006, he studied composition with Rasmussen, Spahlinger, Valverde and Sorensen in Aarhus, Freiburg, Buenos Aires and Copenhagen. Since 2018, he has taught composition and music theater at the University of the Arts in Bern, Switzerland.

Simon Steen-Andersen received the Kranichstein Music Prize in 2008. Since 2014, he has been a regular tutor in composition at the Darmstadt Summer Course.