Øyvind Torvund

September 2017 saw Torvund being bestowed with the Edvard Prize in the Contemporary category for his work Sweet Pieces.

From 2007 to 2009, Torvund was selected as an entrant for the INTRO-composer launch programme, that was administered by MIC Music Information Centre Norway and Concerts Norway. In 2012 Torvund received the Arne Nordheim composer prize and in 2013 he was a DAAD-fellow in Berlin.

Although some of Torvund's works, such as the Nono and Scelsi inspired orchestral piece How Sound Travels (2006), are easily located under the umbrella of contemporary classical music, many of his pieces combine sounds and concepts from other musical traditions. In Power Art (2006), for soprano, guitar and 2-stringed bass, the bass instrument is built by the performer and the piece "is reminiscent of the musical feel of hardcore power trios like Black Flag, even if a song by Henry Purcell is the piece’s foundation." In Album Cycle (2004) for 9 instruments, he "layers typical Baroque figures, the décor of garish 1980s pop, and stereotypical free jazz riffs, resulting in a tableau of musical ornamentation crossing styles and eras, oscillating between the exalted and the banal."

Torvund has also held a number of positions in various organisations on the Norwegian music scene. He served as the editor of contemporary music publication Parergon from 2001-2002, artistic director for the Music Factory festival in Bergen, co-producer at the Borealis festival (2004-2008) and artistic director for nyMusikk (the Norwegian section of the ISCM) from 2009 to 2011.

Øyvind Torvund (born 1976 in Porsgrunn) is a Norwegian composer.