Simon Steen-Andersen

Simon Steen-Andersen (b. 1976, Denmark) is a Berlin-based composer and stage director known for his transdisciplinary approach to musical performance and theatre, creating works that blur the boundaries between music, performance, theatre, choreography, and film.

Steen-Andersen has received numerous awards, including the Reumert Award (2024), the Carl Prize (2024, 2020, 2015), the SWR Orchestra Prize (2019, 2014), the Mauricio Kagel Music Prize and the Ernst von Siemens Composer’s Prize (2017), the Nordic Council Music Prize (2014), the Carl Nielsen Honorary Award and the Kunstpreis from the Berlin Academy of the Arts (2013), First Prize at the International Rostrum of Composers (2010), and the Kranichsteiner Music Prize (2008), as well as a DAAD Berlin Artist Residency (2010).

He studied composition with Karl Aage Rasmussen, Mathias Spahlinger, Gabriel Valverde, and Bent Sørensen in Aarhus, Freiburg, Buenos Aires, and Copenhagen from 1998 to 2006. Steen-Andersen has been a member of the Berlin Academy of the Arts since 2016 and of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music since 2018.

Since 2018, he has taught composition and music theatre at the University of the Arts Bern (HKB), Switzerland, and serves as Associate Professor at the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus, Denmark.

His scored works are published by Edition·S in Copenhagen.