Conductor, composer and pianist Christian Eggen is one of the most influential figures in Norwegian music. His activities include contemporary music, cross-genre projects, installations, drama productions for radio and television, film, theatre, opera, classical music and jazz.
Today, Christian Eggen is one of Europe’s leading conductors of contemporary music, and performs regularly with ensembles such as the German musikFabrik and the French Ensemble Intercontemporaine. The list of composers with whom he has collaborated closely includes some of the most important names of our time: Cage, Lutoslawski, Xenakis, Lachenmann, Kurtág, Lindberg, Saariaho and Bent Sørensen.
