Øyvind Mæland

Øyvind Mæland (b. 1985) studied piano with Jiri Hlinka at the Barratt Due Music Institute in Oslo before embarking on composition studies at the Norwegian Academy of Music where his teachers included Olav Anton Thommesen, Ivar Frounberg and Henrik Hellstenius. Attending masterclasses he has also received guidance from a number of composers including Aperghis, Furrer, Billone, Ferneyhough, Czernowin, K. Lang and D. Kourliandski.
Øyvind Mæland’s output consists primarily of chamber and ensemble works; he has collaborated with instrumentalists, ensembles and conductors including Marco Fusi, Håkon Austbø, Hans-Kristian Kjos Sørensen, Stine Motland, Pinquins, Oslo String Quartet, Kairos quartet, Aksiom, The Royal Norwegian Naval Forces' Band, Bodø Sinfonietta, Telemark Chamber Orchestra, BIT20 and Pierre-André Valade, and Oslo Sinfonietta and Christian Eggen. Mæland’s music has been performed at festivals such as Ultima, Borealis, and Oslo Chamber Music Festival. In 2013 he completed his nearly two hour long opera Ad undas – Solaris korrigert for six singers, full orchestra and nine-part choir, which premiered at the Norwegian Opera in October the same year, in close collaboration with the poet Øyvind Rimbereid and director Lisa Lie.
In the autumn of 2015 eight of Mæland’s works were recorded for the LAWO, Fabra and Geiger labels by Stine Motland, Marco Fusi, Sanae Yoshida, Oslo String Quartet, Aksiom, and Telemark Chamber Orchestra.