Lasse Thoresen

Composer Lasse Thoresen weaves influences as diverse as Norwegian folk music and French spectral music into a distinctive personal style, and his adherence to the Baha'i faith has shaped several of his major works. Thoresen is also a notable educator. Among Thoresen's early works was With an Open Hand or a Clenched Fist?, recorded by flutist Maiken Mathisen Schau on his 2016 album Sea of Names. In 1988, Thoresen joined the faculty of the Norwegian Academy of Music, where he remained as of the early 2020s. By the early 2020s, more than 25 of Thoresen's works had been recorded, including Lyden av Arktis ("Sound of the Arctic"), commissioned and recorded by Norway's Arctic Philharmonic Orchestra in 2022.