ABOUT
BIOGRAPHY
“A boundary defying and remarkable composer and artist”
Josefine Opsahl is an award-winning composer and cellist - a celebrated performer, a virtuoso and visionary artist who renews and pushes the rich legacy of music traditions forward.
She has been hailed to be a ‘boundary defying and remarkable composer and artist’ (The Strad) whose refined compositions, live performances and strong concepts tie new, groundbreaking bonds between aesthetics, genres, environments and people. Her music and artistry presents a fresh, contemporary synthesis between traditions of classical music and the sounds and reality of today that transcends old barriers and let the music freely express and project.
Her solo performances unfold her refined and unique music combining her acoustic cello and electronics resulting in powerful and mesmerizing symphonic sonic worlds.
Being both an excellent composer, musician and performer, Josefine Opsahl creates music and live performances with a direct and deep impact that has touched, opened and conquered new ears, eyes and hearts of audiences all over the world. She has written operas, works for orchestra and ballet and has received numerous awards for her music.
Composer
Josefine Opsahl creates music with a direct and deep impact. She has been hailed to be a ‘boundary defying and remarkable composer and artist’ (The Strad) who integrates aesthetics across eras of music, art, performance, spaces and communities. Extending her background in Classical composition into contemporary medias of expression, she melts down barriers and genres resulting unique and touching sonic worlds and experiences.
With an open and curious approach to sounds, forms and genres and a deeply rooted insistence on engaging in dialogue with the paradigms, minds and entities of the time we are living in, she pushes expressions, experiences and phenomenons forward to revitalize and renew the legacy of classical composition. Her unique sonic worlds has touched, opened and conquered new ears, eyes and hearts of audiences all over the world. She has written operas, works for orchestra, ballet, acclaimed soloists and ensembles and has received numerous awards for her music.
Her compositions have received rave reviews in international media and have been performed all over the world. Prominent premieres count: Lincoln Center (US), Elbphilharmonie (DE), Danish Broadcast Corporation’s Koncerthuset Concert Hall (DK). Composer in residence Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival (FI). Commissions from Copenhagen Phil, The Royal Theatre, Aalborg Symphony Orchestra (DK), Trio Gaspard (DE), Berlin Academy of American Music (DE/US), New York Scandia Symphony (US), Heilbronner Symphony Orchestera (DE)
“A boundary defying and remarkable composer and artist” (The Strad)
"A complex artistic triumph” (Politiken)
"“Shakin’ up classical music” (Kuhmo)
Recipient of 2024 Best Opera Reumert nomination (HJEM Opera).
Associated Educator of composers and soloists at The National Academy of Music Department of Composition (DK)
Soloist
Josefine Opsahl is a unique and sought after musician, performer and virtuoso. Drawing on her background in classical music she ties new groundbreaking bonds between expressions, aesthetics and genres. Her solo performances unfold her refined and remarkable music combining her acoustic cello and electronics resulting in powerful and mesmerizing symphonic sonic worlds.
Being both an excellent composer and performer, Josefine Opsahl creates music and live performances with a direct and deep impact that has touched, opened and conquered new ears, eyes and hearts of audiences all over the world. She has performed throughout the world with significant performances at major halls such as Lincoln Center (US), Elbphilharmonie (DE) and DR Koncerthuset (DK).
Her latest solo album CYTROPIA was praised to be a “unique, authentic and very original electro acoustic masterpiece” (GAFFA) and received a nomination as Best Neoclassical Album from the prestigeous Edison Klassiek Prize (NL).