Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje (b. 1973, Trondheim) is a composer and performer with a background at the Norwegian State Academy of Music in Oslo. Her music is performed worldwide by performers such as Ensemble Intercontemporain, Klangforum Wien, Oslo Sinfonietta, The Norwegian Radio Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Fretwork, and Cikada, Mivos and Bozzini String Quartets. Portrait concerts with her music has been heard in Toronto and Vienna, and she has been composer in residence at festivals like Other Minds in…
Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje (b. 1973, Trondheim) is a composer and performer with a background at the Norwegian State Academy of Music in Oslo. Her music is performed worldwide by performers such as Ensemble Intercontemporain, Klangforum Wien, Oslo Sinfonietta, The Norwegian Radio Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Fretwork, and Cikada, Mivos and Bozzini String Quartets. Portrait concerts with her music has been heard in Toronto and Vienna, and she has been composer in residence at festivals like Other Minds in San Francisco, Trondheim Chamber Music Festival, Avanti! Summer Festival and Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.
Ratkje has received awards such as the International Rostrum of Composers in Paris, the Norwegian Edvard Prize, second prize at the Russolo Foundation, and was the first composer ever to receive the Norwegian Arne Nordheim prize. In 2013 she was nominated for the Nordic Council Music Prize for her vocal work. She has released records on several labels, such as Tzadik, Rune Grammofon, 2L, ECM and Important Records.
www.ratkje.com
jan 2017