Henrik Denerin (b. 1978) is a Swedish composer whose work explores the relationships between notation, sound and performance. His scores are often highly detailed, yet notation is used less as a means of fixing a predetermined musical result than as a tool for exploration. The score establishes conditions, possibilities and constraints through which the music can emerge in performance, allowing the individual musician to become an active participant in the formation of the work. His music frequently grows out of close and long-term collaborations with performers, approaching the musical work not as a fixed object but as a space for experiment, negotiation and discovery.

His work is centred on chamber and solo music, often incorporating electronics or live electronics, while also extending to larger ensembles, orchestra, electroacoustic music, improvisation, and works in which sound, movement and other scenic elements are closely integrated.

Denerin’s music has been performed internationally by ensembles and musicians including Ensemble Recherche, Ensemble Aleph, Kwartludium, Kammerorchester Basel, Curious Chamber Players, Gageego!, BIT20 Ensemble, Vertixe Sonora, Jack Adler-McKean, Moritz Ernst, Axelsson & Nilsson Duo, Karen Heath, Kazuko Ihara and Johannes Nästesjö. His works have been presented in concert programmes and at international festivals including the ISCM World New Music Days, Warsaw Autumn, Nordic Music Days, the Darmstadt Summer Course, Donaueschingen, Mixtur Festival, Melbourne International Arts Festival and Vertixe Vigo.

He studied composition at the Malmö Academy of Music with Luca Francesconi, Rolf Martinsson, Staffan Storm and Kent Olofsson, alongside studies and workshops with Karlheinz Stockhausen, Per Nørgård, Bent Sørensen and Richard Toop. He has also studied philosophy of mathematics at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and has a long-standing interest in mathematics, physics and cosmology.

Denerin was awarded the Järnåker Prize in 2023 for collide and first prize in the Swedish Chamber Games in 2020 for totenkopf.

Alongside his work as a composer, Denerin is actively engaged in the Swedish contemporary music community. He is a board member and member of the working committee of FST (the Swedish Society of Composers), Chair of Levande Musik, a board member and member of the programme council of KALV Festival, and a board member of the Saltö Foundation of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. He is also a voting member of STIM (the Swedish Performing Rights Society).