User:Jens Wilhelm Pedersen

FUZZY, Danish Composer. Born in Denmark 1939. Studies at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen and the Royal Academy of Music in Århus in music history, (Bjørn Hjelmborg), music theory (Vagn Holmboe and Finn Høffding) and composition with Per Nørgård. Later studies with Jan Bark, Georgy Ligeti and K. H. Stockhausen. Professional activities: Until 1978 lecturer in history of musical history and theory of music at the Royal Academy of Music in Århus. Active as both a pianist and clarinettist and member of the now defunct Swedish/Danish multi-media group, Nya Kulturkvartetten with whom he has toured in Scandinavia, eastern and western Europe as well as USA and Canada. FUZZY has over the years been greatly involved in television work and for a time hosted his own programme for children FUZZYs WORKSHOP, a programme about contemporary music and music from foreign cultures. He also composed the music for the opera, with text by Rune T. Kidde, called "Heksemutter Mortensen og den fede Kalkun". The opera was commissioned for The Royal Opera by the then newly appointed opera manager, Kasper Holten, who also produced the opera. As a composer, FUZZY has - apart from orchestral, choral and chamber music works - concentrated mainly on electro-acoustic music, often in connection with ballet, theatre and film - or with a mixture of all of these as in Pedriksen 1 & 2 which was done in co-operation with the photographer P I Henriksen. He has composed works for the percussion duo Safri Duo, the flautist James Galway, the performance artist Thomas Sandberg and the electro-acoustic ensemble Contemporánea. In 2001 The Royal Danish Library commisioned 52, twelf-cannels, electro-acoustic compositions (one for every week in the year) to be played in the big atrium called The Scar every day. As a film composer he has among others worked with Kaspar Rostrup, Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Bille August. FUZZY has received several prizes for example The Lifelong Artist’ Grant from The Council of Danish Arts Foundation, The Wilhelm Hansen Foundation Special Prize and Wilhelm Hansen´s Composer Prize 1999. He is an honourable artist of Frederiksberg in Copenhagen where he lives, and was in December 2001 awarded a prize for his sound design for P1 Danmarks Radio (broadcasting).