pernille sejlund
composer
Pernille Louise Sejlund (born in 1979) started her musical carrier in Radio Denmark's Girls Choir. This was where she had her musical unbringing and where she became acquainted with musical genres covering everything from renaissance music - via comtemporary composition music - to pop and jazz. In addition to singing Pernille has always composed music and enjoyed experimenting with music when playing the piano. At the age of 19 she was awarded first prize in a composition competition and at the age of 22 she repeated her achievement when she once again won a composition competition. That triggered something in her and she now started to devote herself much more intensely to composing music. Words, feelings, moods and atmosphere often form the starting point and basis of her music. In 2006, together with the Danish writer Bent Haller, she wrote a musical. In cooperation with the choreographer Ingrid Tranum she has composed the music for two dance performances. The first, "Make-Makeover" made it to the final in an international dance competition in Spain in the summer of 2007. The second was first performed at Den Sorte Diamant, Copenhagen, in the autumn of 2007. In the spring of 2008 you could witness the first performance of a piece of music for recorder and Chinese bamboo flute written for the two virtuosi Michala Petri (Denmark) and Chen Yue (China) at the Shanghai Concert Hall, China. As a member of the Danish composers' association Komvest she is working actively to have her choir music as well as her chamber music performed. Recently she wrote choir music for the Danish chamber choirs Hymnia and Coro Misto. In addition to writing composition music she also writes so-called popular music. Among other things she works on a song project of her own which is writing Danish songs. She also makes musical arrangements for other bands and solists. Electronic music is a genre that she started to engage in only a couple of years ago, but Pernille expects electronic music as well as film music to play an important and substantial role in her musical universe and activities in the future. She has had several works played on the radio and published. Pernille is studying at DKDM (Royal Danish Academy of Music) and taught composition by Niels Rosing-Schow, Bent Sørensen, Karsten Fundal and Hans Peter Stubbe-Teglbjærg. On top of that she has a bachelor degree in music from Københavns Universitet.