Dagfinn Koch


Dagfinn Koch is a musician.

Education

He studied at the State Academy of music , and at Hochschule der Künste Berlin.

Music career

He has been freelancing since 1994, and has written music for orchestra, chamber and theatre music, opera, ballet and fine art installations. Besides that has he worked as an arranger for amongst others Finn Coren and Lucifer Was. He has been a member of the Oslo Philharmonic program committee and a member of the board in the Composers society and in the evaluation committee of TONO.
In addition to composition, he has worked in a youth club, as a teacher in a music school in Oslo, Bærum and Bergen, as a music copyist and engraver, and as a sound engineer. He has received several scholarships from TONO and was granted a two-year scholarship from the Norwegian Ministry for Cultural Affairs in 2006. He was accepted as a member of the Composers society in 1991.
Dagfinn has not sought a particular style. He is more concerned with being able to move in any possible direction. This experience has developed into a method which he calls "Translucence" - a method that builds on post war-modernism techniques combined with an idiomatic way of writing. For him it is not important to use music to communicate a "deeper meaning", but to present a narrative music which gives the listeners a diversity of possible interpretations.

Personal life

Dagfinn has lived in Oslo since 2005, and in Germany for 13 years.

Key works

  • Translucence for Brass Band
  • Versuch über Schatten, Farben und Licht for Brass Band
  • Das ersehnte Licht for orchestra
  • Rückblick for string quartett or string orchestra
  • Elegie for violin og grand piano
  • Pesni i tanzi for flute/altoflute, clarinet/bassclarinett, horn and grand piano
  • Le mystère de la voix for violoncello solo
  • Transitus for organ
  • Aura for string orchestra or 16 solo string players
  • Liebeslied for orchestra

Discography

  • «21 Marches For The 21st Century» Simax Classics PSC 1163
  • «A Norwegian Rendezvous» Kristiansand Kammerorkester/Jan Stigmer. Works of Nordheim, Kvandal, Åm and Koch. INTIM Musik IMCD 065