School of Music

Peder Simonsen is a composer, microtonal tuba player and recording engineer. He works mainly in the fields of improvised and experimental music. His practice is centered around working with the texture and materiality of a tone or a timbre, using techniques from just intonation. He has a strong interest in concepts of time and sound, and love to explore long sustained pitches and pattern repetition. Simonsen is educated from NTNU (dep. of Jazz) in Trondheim, UDK Berlin and Conservatorium Von Amsterdam. He has toured in the United States, Europe, China, Mexico, Colombia and Russia. He has been working with projects intersecting art and music at the site-specific Speicher festival in the water reservoir in Berlin, as well as concerts arranged with James Beckett’s, the Palace Ruin Project in Amsterdam and the Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art. He is active on the European improv and contemporary music scene with the microtonal tuba trio Microtub and has in recent years worked with artists and musicians such as Jo David Meyer Lysne / Mats Eilertsen, Trondheim Jazz Orchestra, Anna Webber, Jaga Jazzist, Bob Hund and Mary Ocher. Simonsen´s music studio is located in the Artist in Residency; Palazzo Stabile in Piemonte, Italy. An AiR he runs with his family.