As a composer, Simon Christensen received his education at the Royal Danish Academy of Music and at the Conservatoire de Paris. His music has been performed in his native country, Denmark, and abroad, counting commissions by Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Athelas Sinfonietta and more. Simon is an active musician in his own duo Mono Duo, he performs on the zither, a handful of percussion instruments and a small arsenal of analogue modules. "... would just like to say that Simon Christensen's string quartet Manifest - Bust There's No Need to Shout, which I heard this afternoon at Frederiksberg Palace Chapel, was a revelation. A work that played for more than an hour without dramatic progression and without ascending and descending motions... " - Jexper Holmen, composer