Peter Bruun

Position
Part-time Teacher
Studies
Composition
Area
Composition
Department
Education

Employment

In 2025, Peter will be employed as a teacher in methodological subjects, artistic development work, and research.

He graduated as a composer and music theorist from the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus (Det Jyske Musikkonservatorium) in 1995 and has worked for many years as a freelance composer. He has composed works for orchestra, chamber music, choral music, and music theater. Singing plays a significant role in his compositional output. In 1995, he received a three-year working grant from the Danish Arts Foundation, and in 2008, he was awarded the Nordic Council Music Prize for the chamber opera Miki Alone (2002).

Peter is a member of the artist collective FIGURA Ensemble, with whom he has created numerous musical works and music theater pieces. Together with FIGURA, he also runs the educational platform Små Komponister (Small Composers), which aims to promote creative musical processes in general educational contexts for both children and adults.

In addition to his musical training, Peter earned a Master’s degree in Education (cand.pæd) from the Danish School of Education in 2016. Most recently, he completed a PhD program in collaboration between the Royal Danish Academy of Music (RDAM) and the Danish School of Education, earning his PhD in 2023 with the dissertation "Worlds Become in Sound – A Study in the Phenomenology of Music Creation, Being, and Pedagogic Processes of Bildung."

He has been active in music policy and organizational work. From 2004 to 2007, he served as chairman of SNYK (Art Music Denmark). In 2010, he was the artistic director of the Nordic Music Days in Copenhagen, and from 2014 to 2016, he was chairman of the Danish Arts Foundation’s Committee for Music Grants and a member of the foundation’s board.