Birgitte Alsted (b. 1942)

Birgitte Alsted graduated as a violinist at the Royal Academy of Music in Copenhagen and the Music Academy of Warsaw; since 1972 she has also been active as composer. She has asserted herself within the field of electronic music, and she often expresses herself creatively incorporating other art forms. In this way she has often been employed in the world of theatre and performance / dance. Apart from music for theatre her oeuvre includes works for soloists and chamber orchestras; very often they are structured in an unusual manner, incorporating acoustic instruments as well as computers and tapes.

Birgitte Alsted also worked a lot with multimedia performances, where the use of electronics, lyrics, poetry, dance and slides is made up in an experimental way. Literature and poetry - new as well as old - are important sources of inspiration for her.

Birgitte Alsted co-founded the group for alternative music, she was a member of the Danish Music Council and she was a member of the society "Kvinder i Musik" (Women in Music). In 1980 she received a three-year scholarship from the Danish Arts Foundation, and in 1992 she received the Hakon Børresen Prize.