Trondheim Chamber Music Festival has put Trondheim on the international music map with our annual presentation of festival composers. Our goal is to showcase as broad a spectrum as possible of the composer throughout the festival week, all while including and inspiring the local music scene. We believe the barrier to new music is reduced when you can meet a living composer, hear their works, and listen to them talk about their music. The traditional seminar "Meet the composer" in collaboration with NTNU, is a unique opportunity to get close to such a great artist.
We are very proud to have presented the following festival composers:
James MacMillan (1999)
Jon Balke (2001) (also commissioned work)
Luciano Berio (2002)
Steve Reich (2003)
Sofia Gubaidulina (2004) (also commissioned work)
Thomas Adès (2005)
Magnus Lindberg (2006)
George Crumb (2007)
Rolf Wallin (2008)
Osvaldo Golijov (2009)
HK Gruber (2010)
Brett Dean (2011)
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (2012)
Lera Auerbach (2013)
Kaija Saariaho (2014)
Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje (2015)
Bent Sørensen (2016)
Sally Beamish (2017)
Michel van der Aa (2018)
Lasse Thoresen (2019)
Mark Simpson (2020)
Caroline Shaw (2021)
Olga Neuwirth (2022)
Valentin Silvestrov (2023)
Jessie Montgomery (2024)
Jörg Widmann (2025)