Background
Halfdan East was born in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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He continued to compose for film and television, working with film directors such as Per Fly and Hans Petter Moland, and to work as a popular and rock producer. He wrote the score for Per Fly"s television-series Forestillinger. Halfdan East has been awarded three Danish Robert Awards out of five nominations.
In 2012, he composed a new four-tone notification sound for the Banedanmark Danish state railway, replacing the three-tone sound composed by Niels Viggo Bentzon and used since the early 1980s.
Halfdan operates in the twilight zone between the conventional orchestral score and the imaginative use of strange instruments and sounds. This approach enables him to come up with new ideas and sounds and to capture the ever-changing modes as well as increasing the focus that a specific scene or epic progression demands.
Achievements
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His work has won two Danish Grammy Awards and three Danish Robert Awards. His music for the television series Borgen has also won the 2011 FIPA prize. After stints as a session bass player in many different rock bands in the 1980s and early 1990s, followed by a degree from the Academy of Music in Copenhagen, Halfdan East collaborated with Danish poet Dan Turèll on the crossover project "Pas På Pengene", resulting in two Civil Defense recordings, which both won Danish Grammy awards.
