"From punk rock to opera: Søren Nils Eichberg is one of Europe’s most exciting composers.“ – wrote The Royal Opera House in 2014 when Eichberg’s chamber opera GLARE was premiered in London. The Times gave the opera five out of five stars, writing: "I can’t remember a more gripping 75 minutes of avant-garde music-theatre“. Eichberg’s first breakthrough was in 2001 when he was awarded the Composition Prize of the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels for his violin concerto Qilaatersorneq. For Hilary Hahn he composed the work Levitation for a concert tour and a recording, which went on to win a Grammy Award; for Mahler Chamber Orchestra the Concerto grosso for String Quartet and Chamber Orchestra "Endorphin" which has since been widely performed, and Ensemble Modern commissioned pieces for the ensemble itself and its academy. Festivals like Tanglewood, Salzburg, Bergen are programming Eichberg’s music. In 2010 the Danish National Orchestra appointed Eichberg its first ever composer-in-residence. The collaboration continued for five years and led to the creation of several new large-scales works and to recordings of his Symphonies No. 1 to 3. Eichberg has been short-listed for the German National Composer Award (Musikautorenpreis) for his symphonic output.<br>