Born in 1953.
THE GUITAR PLAYER
Studied Guitar at The Royal College of Music in Århus, Denmark, with Maria Kämmerling, diploma 1979.
Joined the soloist class of Konrad Ragossnig at the “Musikakademie der Stadt Basel” receiving Concert Diploma in 1981.
Has given first performances of solo works by Danish composers such as Axel Borup-Jørgensen, Vagn Holmboe, Lars Hegaard and Hans-Henrik Nordstrøm as well as first Danish performances of works by Peter Maxwell Davies, Hans-Werner Henze, André Jolivet, and Luciano Berio.
Concerts in Europe and North America.
Member of the Corona Guitar Quartet.
2002 – 2012 Member of the artistic direction of the Suså Festival for contemporary music.
Retired as a guitar player in 2022.
THE COMPOSER
Per Dybro Sørensen has – since writing music for the theater in the 1980’s – tried to develop a personal way of writing music.
These efforts resulted in the work ”Like a transient punctuation” in 2012. This work develops a technique of variation, based on the infinite row of Per Nørgård.
In 2012-14 he has studied composition with the danish composer Peter Bruun.
His works have been performed at the Open Days Festival, Denmark 2014 and 2016, “Young Sound Artists of Norhtern Jutland” 2015, The Suså Festival, Denmark 2016, at Sound Ways in Saint Petersburg in 2017, at Beethoven in Buda Festival in Budapest in 2019, at Bloomsday in Salzburg in 2021, and in Radom, Poland in 2023.
In 2016 his work Machinery for guitar sextet reached the finale of the Timo Korhonen International Composition Competition
In 2019 his work “Conversation in Spring” for violin and piano won the 2nd price in “2nd Beethoven Composers Competition at the Buda Castle” in Budapest.
In 2021 his string quartet “Turbulence” was selected for the “Workout” programme of the Ligeti Quartet, UK.
His work “Clouds 2023” for string orchestra was selected for the final concert of Krzystof Penderecki International Composer’s Competitilon ARBORETUM 2023 in Radom, Poland.
In 2024 “At The Shore” for solo guitar was given “Honorable Mention” in Miami GuitART Composing Competition.
He is a member of the Danish Composers Union