Martin Lohse (b. 1971) studied musicology at the University of Copenhagen as well as music theory and composition at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen as a student of Hans Abrahamsen and Niels Rosing-Schow. He has participated in the Young Nordic Music Festival (Oslo, 1998) and in the NUMUS Festival in Aarhus, in concerts at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art and at Danmarks Radio, with performances of his music by ensembles including Ars Nova Copenhagen and the Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra. Martin Lohse is also active as a visual artist; his paintings are abstract, with clear, dominant primary colours.