Stein Eide is educated at the University of Oslo, Norway. He studied with Norwegian composer Maj Sønstevold, jazz-pianist Egil Kapstad, and during one season with saxophonist Jan Garbarek. Stein Eide had a Scholarship to the BBC Composers Workshop. For many decades he was a presenter/producer with the music-department of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation NRK.
A handful of TV-productions with Stein Eide as a composer have received or been nominated to the international TV awards: “Prix Jeunesse”,” Golden Chest”,” Prix Danube”, and the Norwegian” Gullruten”, while Norwegian radio drama productions “David Copperfield”, “The Weirdstone of Brisingamen”, “Tom Sawyer” and more were released on CD. Stein Eide was the main composer of the Nordic TV series “Myggan” (52 episodes in a collaboration with Swedish SVT, Finnish YLE, Danish DR, and Norwegian NRK).
About the music
“A melody may carry you anywhere at any time. Still there are lots of melodies to be discovered and the challenge is to find them and capture them”.
Working on melodic development and harmonic nuances and structures is very similar to inventing stories like a novelist, playing with rhymes like a poet or exploring colors like a painter. A modern composer has a rich cultural heritage.
I grew up with a lot of different influences in music, the magic melodies by the Beatles, the modal laid back jazz of the Miles Davis “Kind of Blue» period, all the exiting new recordings of classical composers: Bach, Mozart, Ravel, Stravinsky, or here up north Grieg and Sibelius.
As a radio presenter I had live concerts with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra for decades and I often followed rehearsals by reading the scores.
Composing my music is much about the joy of spontaneous creativity on one hand and the critical self judgement on the other, the yin and yang I always need to balance.
Photo credits
Javier Chavez
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