Lars Graugaard is a danish-born composer, performer, and lecturer with
a degree in flute-playing from the Royal Academy of Music in Copenhagen, Denmark and
a Ph.D. in the artistic and technological challenges of gesture and emotion in
interactive music from Oxford Brookes University, England. Lars has over 180 score
compositions in all genres to his credit, performed in Europe, Asia, Australia and
the Americas. He has also composed for stage and cinema, and he appears as flautist,
performer and/or composer on Dacapo/Naxos, Classico, Centaur, EMI, SONY Classical
and CBS as well as online micro-labels such as chordpunch, Mindwaves, Pueblo Nuevo
and clang. He has published several scientific papers on performative aspects of
music and cross-media. Lars’ artistic vision and musical understanding lets him move
freely between sophisticated surroundings and popular culture and his production
comprises digital experiments into the latest trends of interactive music and
cross-modal forms, as well as popular projects and compositions in the modernistic
European tradition from large-scale orchestral pieces to chamber music. Lars is
Visiting Faculty Artist at New York University Steinhardt since 2010 and guest
professor at Universidad Catolica, Chile.
