Kristine Tjøgersen

Kristine Tjøgersen’s compositional practice is characterized by curiosity, imagination, humor and precision. Through her work, she creates unexpected auditory situations through playing with tradition. She has a special interest in the interplay between the visual and the auditory and how they affect each other. Nature in motion and process is often reflected in her works, and collaboration with researchers and biologists is for her a source of new sound and scenic ideas that allows her to incorporate organic forms into the music. Her music is developed in support of the notion that astonishment lies wherever one is willing to look.  As Tjøgersen puts it, “By giving nature a voice in the concert hall, I want the audience to get to know valuable forms of life, and to raise awareness of what can be lost if humans continue to change nature.” In 2020 she received the Arne Nordheim Prize, in 2021, she was awarded Work of the Year from the Norwegian Society of Composers for Piano Concerto. Her work Between Trees was the selected work of the 2022 International Rostrum of Composers in Palermo and won the Coup de Coeur des Jeunes Mélomanes from Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco in 2023. In 2024, she was awarded the Edvard Prize for her orchestra piece Pelagic Dreamscape. 2025 saw Tjøgersen honored with a Composer Prize from the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung, and two Norwegian Grammys (Spellemannsprisen) for her debut album Between Trees. kristinetjogersen.no