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Bent Lorentzen
Composer
Bent Lorentzen (1935–2018) was educated at Aarhus University and the Royal Danish Academy of Music, studying with Vagn Holmboe, Jørgen Jersild, and Finn Høffding. Throughout the 1960s he attended the courses in Darmstadt and Munich and also studied electronic music at the Stockholm Electronic Music Studio. Lorentzen’s works were often created in close collaboration with musicians and singers.
As a composer he never isolated himself in an ivory tower, but instead consistently strove for communication and interaction with musicians, audiences, and institutions alike. A successful example of the composer’s desire and talent for communication was the Ebeltoft Festival, which from 1990–93 presented a summer audience with a fifty-fifty mix of old and new Danish and international music in specially chosen settings: musically, physically, and socially it was a festival full of surprising and multi-stimulating experiences.