Studies in composition with Karl Aage Rasmussen and Bent Sørensen at the Royal Academy of Music, Arhus, 1998-2003.

Studies with Mathias Spahlinger at Staatliche Hochschule für Musik, Freiburg, Germany, 2001/2002.

Studies with Gabriel Valverde at CEAMC in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2003/2004.

Post-grade studies with Bent Sorensen and Hans Abrahamsen at the Royal Academy of Music in Copenhagen, 2004-2006 - graduated with the highest honours.

1st prize winner with String Quartet in the Holmboe Competition 2000.

Praesens awarded a prize by The Danish Arts Foundation 2002.

Received working grants from the Danish Arts Foundation 2003 and 2004.

Received the "Bisballe Prize" as "Artist of the Year", 2005, and a grant from the Léonie Sonning Music Foundation, 2006.

Received The Danish Arts Foundation's "Three Year Grant", 2006.

Received a "Scolarship Prize" at the "Darmstadt Ferienkurse", 2006.

Finalist in Confluencias (Spain) EA Miniature Competition with Electro Miniature, 2006.

1st prize winner in "Presence China 2008" with Ouvertures.

Received the "Kranichsteiner Prize" at the "Darmstadt International Summer Courses for New Music", 2008.

Nominated for The Nordic Council Music Prize 2010.

Winner of the International Rostrum of Composers 2010 with Ouvertures.

Composer in Residence with Aalborg Symphony Orchestra, 2004/2005.

Composer in Residence with Athelas Sinfonietta Copenhagen, 2006-2007.

Residency at HOTELbich/NADINE in Brussel, December 2008.

Artist in Residence at DAAD's "berliner-künstlerprogram" 2010.

Selected for the Ensemble Modern Internation Composition Seminar, 2006/2007.

Selected for the Voix Nouvelles workshop with Brian Ferneyhough, Royaumont, France, 2007.

String Quartet and Praesens chosen by Danish National Radio for the International Radio Rostrum Festival, 2001 and 2005.

in-side-out-side-in..., Amongst, loloopop and Ouvertures selected by the danish ISCM jury, 2003, 2006, 2007 and 2008.

Selected by the international jury for ISCM in Sweden 2009 with Ouvertures.

Works commissioned by among others ensemble recherche/Donaueschinger Musiktage 2007, Ensemble Modern, Radio Kammerphilharmonie Hilversum/Donaueschinger Musiktage 2010, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, The French National Orchestra, Oslo Sinfonietta, Århus Sinfonietta, Asamisimasa (NO), The Pearls Before Swine Experience (SE) and Ensemble 2000.

Works performed by ensembles like ICTUS, Collegium Novum Zürich, ensemble recherche, Ensemble Modern, KNMB, Alter Ego, Ensemble Caput (IS), Silesian String Quartet (PL) and Asamisimasa (NO).

Works performed at the Donaueschinger Musiktage, Nordic Music Days, Ultima Festival, Composers Biennale Denmark, Numus Festival, Music Harvest, Susaa Festival, UNM and Amplitudes (DK/FR).

Works performed and broadcasted in more than 25 countries.

Co-director for the magazine for new art music, AUTOGRAF.org.

Published articles in kunstMUSIK (DE), RTRSRCH (BE), AUTOGRAF (DK), Dansk Musik Tidsskrift (DK), Nutida Musik (SE) and Parergon (NO).

Co-founder and member of the board of the SPOR Festival, 2004-2006.

Teaching history for composers at the Royal Academy of Music in Arhus, 2004-2005.

Teaching composition at the Royal Academy of Music in Arhus from 2008.

Did lectures and seminars at the Music Academies of Freiburg, Stockholm, Gothenburg, Oslo, Gent, Arhus, Copenhagen, the University of Arhus, CEAMC (ARG), Music Harvest, the Holmboe Festival and more.

Director of the mini-festival "freiburg dot dk" in Aarhus and Copenhagen, march 2005.

Link to "profile" on www.danishmusic.info (in English)

                Ouvertures - for amplified gu-zheng, sampler and orchestra (17') (2008/2010)

                Study for String Instrument #2 (for one or more string instruments and whammy pedal) (5'-6') (2009)

                Run Time Error - video installation / performance (2009)

                Self Simulator - "interactive installation" (2009)

                Pretty Sound (Up And Down) - for amplified piano (pianist or percussion player) (7'30'') (2008)

                Beloved Brother - two movements from J.S. Bach's Cappriccio on the departure of his dearly beloved brother arrangered for "backside-guitar" (7') (2008)

                On And Off And To And Fro - for vibraphone, saxophone/clarinet, double bass/cello and 3 players with megaphones (15') (2008)

                soundTAG - epidemic sound installation (room, street and web) in coorporation with Kaj Aune (2008) WEBSITE: www.soundtag.info

                Study for String Instrument #1 (for one or more string instruments) (5'-6') (2007)

                Nothing Integrated - for extremely amplified clarinet, percussion, cello and live-video (21') (2007)

                In Her Frown - for 2 amplified sopranos (12') (2007)

                In Spite Of, And Maybe Even Therefore - for amplified flute, horn, clarinet + unamplified double basoon, piano, perc. and double bass (9') (2007)

                Chambered Music - for 12 instruments and sampler (11') (2007)

                loloopop - audio/visual installation created in coorporation with visual artist Carl Krull (2006)

                [sproglyd] - interactive webpage (for Norwegian and Danish words and phonemes + string quartet) (2005)

                Within Amongst - anti-kadenza for amplified guitar solo (5') (2005)

                Amongst - concerto for extremely amplified guitar and and large orchestra (33') (2005)

                Self-reflecting Next To Beside Besides - pieces from the NTBB-series in virtual combinations, where the musicians

                play together with video recordings of themselves, playing with video recordings of themselves, and so on ...

                Next To Beside Besides #1-13 (+...) - amplified solo pieces that can also be played together as ensemble pieces

                or movements in any combination of (cello,) doublebass (2 different pieces), saxophone,

                accordion (2 pieces), percussion (2 pieces), piccolo flute, violin, piano, guitar (2 pieces) and camera (perc.) ... (3'30'') (2003-'06)

                Amid - for flute, clarinet, piano, guitar, percussion, violin and cello (optional amplification) (9') (2004)

                Beside Besides (/Next To Beside Besides #0) - fragment for solo cello (optional amplification) (4'30'') (2003)

                Besides for amplified piano, violin and flute + "damped" string trio (18') (2003)

                Drownwords for soprano and guitar, both amplified (10') (2003)