is a Danish composer born in 1978. He grew up and was educated in Aarhus, receiving his professional training in composition at the Royal Academy of Music with Karl Aage Rasmussen  and Bent Sørensen, and in Berlin with Helmut Oehring. His output includes opera, orchestral and chamber music, song, music  theatre, performance and installation works. Rønsholdt employs  a form of “method composing” in which conceptual structures  encompass performance, text and musical expression, often with  references to mainstream music and historical musical forms, as  in Me Quitte, Ord for Ord, Archive of Emotions and Experiences,  Civilizations, and Country.

Rønsholdt has received commissions from leading international  ensembles and festivals, and his works have been performed  across Europe and beyond. He has worked closely with the Danish ensemble SCENATET and has received prizes, grants and fellowships, including a three-year working grant from the Danish  Arts Foundation and a fellowship from the Academy of Arts in  Berlin. His song cycle Songs of Doubt was nominated for the Nordic Council Music Prize in 2020, and Country, a concerto for  singing solo cellist and chamber orchestra, received the Carl  Prize in 2021 in the category Classical Composer of the Year –  Large Ensemble. A substantial discography of his music has been  released by Dacapo Records, Col Legno and other labels.

Alongside his work as a composer, Rønsholdt is Associate Professor of Composition at the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus. He  lives in Aarhus and has been active in several significant boards  and organisations in Danish musical life.

Selected works: Drink me, make me real for alto saxophone,  percussion and tape (2002), Wir I for guitar and audio playback  (2005), Die Wanderin for violin, piano, percussion and audio playback (2007), Torso for female voice, clarinet and percussion  (2007), Unter den Liedern for offstage string quartet, audio playback, lights and video (2007), Al-Aqsa for flute, oboe, clarinet  and horn (2008), The Merman for chamber ensemble, electronics, audio playback and video playback (2008; rev. for chamber  orchestra and live electronics, 2013), Gloomy Room for percussion  (2009), Archeopteryx Dances for string trio (2010), Burning for  flute, violin, cello, piano and film with optional electronics / audio  playback (2012), Me Quitte for two singers, guitar, percussion  and piano (2012; full version for female and male singers, piano,  percussion, guitar, violin and cello, 2013; rev. for orchestra with  female and male vocal soloists, 2014), Americana for string quartet (2013), Fear and loath in g minor for flute, clarinet, violin, cello,  double bass and piano (2014), Songs of Doubt for choir, male voice  and ondes Martenot (2015), Breathless Moment, interactive musicdramatic app for smartphone and tablet (2016), Exile for female  / male voice, piano and audio playback (2016), Shame for amplified quartet: voice, alto saxophone, piano and percussion (2016),  Civilizations for speaker, Greenlandic choir, sample playback and  orchestra (2017; rev. for sinfonietta, speaker, sample playback  and choir, 2017), Gaze for Gaze, performance opera for ensemble, actors and singers (2017), Until Nothing Left, performance  for performing accordionist, objects and audience (2017), Etude  for cello (2018), Archive of Emotions and Experiences, Book 1 for  piano (2019), Archive of Emotions and Experiences, Book 2 for prepared piano (2019), Book of Prayers, oratorio for SATB choir with  soloists and orchestra (2019), Country – Parts 1 & 2, concerto  and song cycle for singing cellist, speaker and chamber orchestra  (2020), Centalog for string quartet (2021), The Last Rites, chamber opera for soprano, countertenor, mezzo- soprano, baritone  and chamber ensemble (2022), Memoriam, interdisciplinary stage  work for vocalists, instrumentalists and dancer (2022), Aftermath,  song album (2023), Western for cello and orchestra (2024; rev.  for ten cellos, 2024), The Orchestra of the World has Departed  for orchestra (2025), Excellent Place to Start for two voices and  jazz orchestra (with Henriette Sennenvaldt, 2025), The Right  of the Strong – The Duty of the Weak, Part 1, opera for soloists,  children’s performers and choir (2025), Osmosis, stage work for  vocalists, dancers, guitar and bass (2026), The Right of the Strong  – The Duty of the Weak, Part 2, opera for soloists, choir, strings  and contemporary circus performers (2026).